by James N » Fri, 24 May 1991 06:54:52
Thanks!
James Nau
College of Engineering
University of Nebraska--Lincoln
W181 Nebraska Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0501
by John F Haugh » Fri, 24 May 1991 22:20:58
The source code to the fortune program has been posted, and is
available from BSD as well. You might want to acquire a copy
and examine it.
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by Mark Whetz » Fri, 31 May 1991 00:40:03
Purpose
Tells a random fortune.
Syntax
fortune [ -] [ -w | -s | -l | -a ] [File]
Description
The fortune command prints a fortune from either the fortunes.dat
file or the file specified. After printing the fortune, the
fortune command exits.
And goes on to give discriptions of the flags.
Info shows the same, no file layout.
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1. Using the 'fortune' command with own data file
When I try using the fortune command with an ascii file, I get an endless
string of ascii 127 characters. I tried 'fortune myfile.dat' at the
command line. What am I doing wrong? Does the data file require a special
format or terminators after each quotation? The man page doesn't say.
Thanks for any help. Email appreciated.
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