megahal-personal(1) chat with megahal

Other Alias

megahal

SYNOPSIS

megahal
megahal-personal

DESCRIPTION

megahal is a conversation simulator. It differs from conversation simulators such as Eliza in that it uses a Markov Model to learn how to hold a conversation. It is possible to teach MegaHAL to talk about new topics, and in different languages. megahal-personal is a variant of megahal that saves its state files in ~/.megahal/ when it exits. This lets each user have their own personal megahal.

OPTIONS

--no-prompt, -p
Do not display prompt when asking user for input. This is a debian-specific modification, and is useful mainly if you want to interface megahal to another program.
--no-wrap, -w
Do not word-wrap text megahal outputs. This is a debian-specific modification, and is useful mainly if you want to interface megahal to another program.
--no-banner, -b
Suppress the startup banner. This is a debian-specific modification, and is useful mainly if you want to interface megahal to another program.

WARNING

MegaHAL allows multiple lines to form a single input. Thus a single newline character is parsed as any other token and MegaHAL can output replies consisting of multiple lines. To end an input, you need to type enter twice.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Joey Hess, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.