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- USAGE
- Fortune is normally called by a line in the user's AUTOEXEC;
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- The default location for the fortunes file is in the current directory.
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- To specify another directory, call it as fortune -f c:\fortunes\fortunes. or
- set the FORTUNES environment variable as in SET FORTUNES=c:\fortunes\fortunes.
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- FORMAT OF A FORTUNES FILE
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- DESCRIPTION
- Entries in the fortunes file consist of single lines, as long as your
- editor and other tools will handle, but less than 2048 characters.
- Commercial At (@) characters are replaced by newlines when fortune(6)
- prints that entry.
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- This format is not intended for long winded cookies.
- Similar files from other sites can be merged and duplicate lines
- eliminated with a sort -u.
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- No indexing information other then the file length is needed for this format.
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- For best effect, obtain the kernel and shell error messages with strings(1)
- and add the interesting or ominous ones to your file.
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- If you find you dislike a particular fortune, eliminating that entry is
- a simple procedure.
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- EXAMPLES
- A good flame is tonic for the soul.
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- Generally, you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance.
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- If God had intended Man to smoke, He would have set Him on fire.@ -Fortune AI project
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- Not many find religion through baton twirling, but then,@ not many discover the dark side of the force.
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- Use your Noodles@ -Ariel Rubenstein
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- One Bell System - it used to work.
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