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THINK(1)		     General Commands Manual			THINK(1)

NAME
     think - you don't have to think, the computer can think for you

SYNOPSIS
     think [ -detach ]

DESCRIPTION
     Think simulates a thinking brain.

     This can be useful if someone is not wanting to think at invocation time or
     if  someone is needing some thinking about something.  It can also be help-
     ful if someone's brain is not working correctly at invocation time.

     When invoked, think will go ahead and look at all of the commands and  key-
     strokes  that a user has made during the current login session.  Think will
     then look at what files the user has.  From this and what level the user is
     listed at in the file /usr/lib/think, think will figure out what  the  user
     was trying to do when think was invoked.

DEVICES
     The  process that think uses to help a user is greatly aided if the user is
     wearing a brain interface bus (bib) device.  A bib device is normally  worn
     on  the  head, and if being used, then think will try to see what was going
     through the users head at the time of invocation.	After think  does  this,
     it  will send electric signals to the users brain, causing the user to type
     in whatever keystrokes are necessary to accomplish  the  task  that  he/she
     doesn't want to think about.

OPTIONS
     -detach
	    also  known  as "Must mother do all of your thinking for you?"-mode.
	    This options causes think to run in the background as a daemon  that
	    watches  for  users  who look like they may need assistance.  When a
	    user is found to be exercising  cluelessness,  think  will	lock  up
	    their keyboard and will proceed to execute what seems to be the most
	    likely  sequence  of commands that the user had intended to execute.
	    This flag may only be used by the super-user.

FILES
     /dev/brain
	    bib device special file.

     /usr/lib/think
	    file to indicate various user abilities.  The format of this file is
	    a username on each line followed by some whitspace and then  a  num-
	    ber.   The higher the number for a given user, the more likely think
	    is to assume that that user knows what he/she  is  doing.	Unfortu-
	    nately, what think considers a large number will vary with usage.

BUGS
     If  a  user  is using a bib device and actually lacks a brain of their own,
     then there is a high risk that think will take  over  their  (non-existent)
     minds.   This  has the upshot that someone other than the user will have to
     stop the program.	(Perhaps this is a feature.)

     It may illegal in some areas to force users to wear bib devices.

AUTHOR
     This man page was written by  John  Guthrie  <guthrie@math.upenn.edu>  with
     suggestions  from	Kevin  Whyte  <kwhyte@math.upenn.edu> for the alt.sysad-
     min.recovery man page collection.

think version 1.0		  April 5, 1996 			THINK(1)

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