Re: Tips

[luisgh@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Luis Francisco Gonzalez)]

> 
> Jonas Bofjall wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Niels wrote:
> >
> > > Those anyone collecting Tips for debian? This is a good one for it...
> > 
> > Another good one is if e2fsck says it cannot read the superblock of your
> >
> > Since it seems like nobody else does, I have noted these.
> > still think that the Microsoft-like tips is a good idea,
> > it gives the newbie some good information that normally is
> > hidden inside the deep deep manuals. Like the 'find' command,
> > terrific utility, always what the newbie wants.
> 
> I've been meaning to look at fortune to see whether it can easily handle
> or be adapted to handle different databases of fortune cookies - such as
> tips. I'm running low on free time just now, so does anyone have the
> answer to this?
> 
> Casper Boden-Cummins.
> 
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Hi,
from a quick look, it seems that the format is pretty easy. There is a pair
of files, the "source" where all fortunes are just separated by a % sign and
a data file with the info for the files that is automatically created from the
former by strfile(8). It seems to be pretty straightforward. (But this was just
a quick look...)

Luis.


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