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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.
-
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- 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
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-
- 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.
-