Re: Making fortunes
Thanks: it's working now, but I'm not quite sure how. I copied the
first few fortunes into another file, and ran strfile on that and it
worked. I then added the other fortunes in chunks to the new file,
re-running strfile each time (I was hoping to narrow down where the
problem was). However, I couldn't find the problem, it just worked: I
guess I must have changed something unwittingly, but as long as it works
...
Thanks again
Rich
Mark Brown wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 07:19:09PM +0000, Richard Harran wrote:
>
> > into something suitable for the fortune program. I tried putting a '%'
> > (percentage - in case that symbol doesn't travel) on each blank line
> > between each comment, then running
>
> It must be a % and only a % - no trailing spaces. For example (assuming
> this makes it through the mail OK):
>
> %
> Computers are useless --- they can only give you answers
> -- Pablo Picasso
> %
> Don't give all your baskets to one egghead.
> -- Arthur C. Clarke
> %
>
> If you have other characters on the line, strfile won't be happy.
>
> > strfile <filename>
> > which gave the following (discouraging) output:
> > "<filename>.dat" created
> > There was 1 string
> > Longest string: 41927 bytes
> > Shortest string: 41927 bytes
>
> That's the correct procudure - check the format of your file.
>
> > I also tried:
> > /usr/games/fortune <filename>.dat
> > expecting it to just dump the whole file, but instead got
> > fortune:<filename>.dat not a fortune file or directory
> > Could someone please point me in the right direction to create a fortune
> > file from my own gibberish.
>
> Point fortune at the cookie file, not the index.
>
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