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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 helpful 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
       keystrokes 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 number.  The higher the number for a given user, the more
              likely think is to assume that that user knows what he/she is
              doing.  Unfortunately, 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.sysadmin.recovery man page collection.

think version 1.0                April 5, 1996                        THINK(1)