Re: ITP dict-devil - The Devil's Dictionary
Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu> writes:
> Can this be adjusted for use with fortune? I've got a fortune database of
> it sitting around, but I couldn't find distribution information for it and
> wasn't sure if it could be packaged or not..it sounds like the version
> you have would definitely work, and getting Ambrose when I log in is
> great :)
I downloaded this version of "The Devil's Dictionary" from
http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Classic/devils.txt. I don't
know what the formatting requirements are for fortune, but I feel
confident you could write a sed script to convert the file to a
fortune database. I don't know what tools are required to produce a
fortune .dat file.
/usr/share/games/fortunes/definitions contains a number of
quotations from "The Devil's Dictionary".
bob:vc-/1:bob>grep -c Bierce /usr/share/games/fortunes/definitions
74
This compares with 995 definitions in the full DD.
Bob
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