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Böblingen, den 07.08.93
This is a port of a fortune teller from Berkley to OS/2 (Familiy App)
using their STRFILE format.
Basically the fortune teller takes a file in STRFILE format as input and
selects one string (fortunes) for output on the screen.
A raw file is a file with text delimited by '%%' (that's the default).
Offensive text may be seperated form the rest by the '%-' delimiter.
---------- cut here ----------
Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words
since I first called my brother's father dad.
-- William Shakespeare, "King John"
%%
Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labor:
People are always available for work in the past tense.
%-
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for
the first time.
-- Alfred E. Wiggam
%%
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never
learned to walk.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
---------- cut here ----------
Such a file may be transformed to a STRFILE using the program 'strfile.exe'.
Type 'strfile -?' to see options.
Fortunes may be displayed by the command
fortunes [drive:path]fortunefile.dat
with the default fortune file '\fortunes\fortunes.dat'.
Type 'fortunes -?' to see options.
A STRFILE may be transformed back to the ASCII file using the program
'unstr.exe'. Type 'unstr -?' to see options.
Enjoy the fortunes
Eduard Kappel
Email: kappel@odysseus.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Mail: Eduard Kappel
Taunusstr. 33
71032 Böblingen
Germany
PS: The Deskpic Screen Saver module fortunes.dss available form
ftp-os2.cdrom.com os2/all/graphics/ekdss.zip
use a STRFILE to display fortunes.