fi
echo
echo "it is $(date +"%A at %H:%M hours on day %e of the %B moon in the gregorian year %Y" | tr A-Z a-z) and our intrepid adventurer $USER is exploring a computer named $(hostname) that is running in a thoughtspace called $osname $osver (code-name $codename), and $USER has deduced that the machine's OS platform is $(uname -m) and its current incarnation has been ${up}." | $splitter
-#hmmm: splitter not accepting these args properly right now:
-#--mincol 2 --maxcol 40
echo
-#echo '++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++'
-#echo
echo "the following things appear to be lying around here..."
echo
ls -hFC $color_add
echo
-#echo '++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++'
-#echo
echo "there appear to be these entities on this host..."
echo
who -suT