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Short: SmartAss Amiga executable and doc.
Author: havardp@mail.stud.ingok.hitos.no (Hσvard Pedersen)
Uploader: havardp@mail.stud.ingok.hitos.no (Hσvard Pedersen)
Version: V1.3!
Type: util/misc
SmartAss is yet another fortune program, but it's the best!
SmartAss was originally written in annoyment over another
fortune-program I found, WiseCrack. The program was written in C
and both its random-number generator and speed was terrible. It
wasn't meant to be the project it has become today. WiseCrack had
originally 2393 fortunes, and to tell you the truth it sort of
came out of control. SmartAss possessed me, and when my datafile
counted over 19000 fortunes I realised I had made a MONSTER!
(Spooky orchestral music here!) SmartAss offers you the following
features:
* The largest fortunecollection known to man. (19758!)
* Compatibility with SmartAss for Unix, DOS and Windows,
written by Sveinar Rasmussen.
* Really fast fortune-fetching due to hash-tables.
* Does NOT read entire datafile into memory.
* Has a continously updating fortunefile. (Available on
AmiNet!)
* Is able to print fortunes to standard output. Insert
SmartAss in your shell-startup or redirect to printer!
* Very random picking of fortunes!
The data files are located in a separate archive called
SmartAss_bin.lha due to space considerations.
============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
3240 1787 44.8% 16-Oct-95 21:46:38 +SmartAss
8951 4173 53.3% 16-Oct-95 21:41:46 +SmartAss.doc
1551 395 74.5% 03-Oct-95 19:00:58 +SmartAss.info
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------
13742 6355 53.7% 20-Oct-95 11:35:14 3 files