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135903 2003-04-16 04:24:00 Its just a fun little programme that prints random quotes eg:


Fortune's Real-Life Courtroom Quote #32:

Q: Do you know how far pregnant you are right now?
A: I will be three months November 8th.
Q: Apparently then, the date of conception was August 8th?
A: Yes.
Q: What were you and your husband doing at that time?

bmason$ fortune

The worst part of having success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.
-- Bette Midler

bmason$ fortune

Men freely believe that what they wish to desire.
-- Julius Caesar

etc.


Its in the "fortune-mod" package.
bmason (508)
135904 2003-04-16 05:21:00 The -o option to fortune gives aphorisms or quotations which might tend to offend those of delicate sensibilities, or brinh a blush to the cheek. ]:)

That collection is not included with all distributions, for some reason. :D

Fortune is usually part of the BSD collection of games. Many organisation used to run it every day, redirecting the output to /etc/motd. Some users called it in one of the "." files so it ran as part of their login.
Graham L (2)
135905 2003-04-16 06:19:00 I didn't even try to find a -o one I could post here :-).

I got my copy from the Penguin Liberation Front (http://plf.zarb.org/).
bmason (508)
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