Re: fortune not working

["s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>]

Peter Daum <gator_ml@yahoo.de>:
>  #  dpkg -l fortune*|grep ii
>  ii  fortune-mod    1.99.1-3.1     provides fortune cookies on demand
>  ii  fortunes       1.99.1-3.1     Data files containing fortune cookies
>  ii  fortunes-min   1.99.1-3.1     Data files containing fortune cookies

(0) phreaque /home/keeling_ pkgs fortune | egrep '^i'
i   fortune-mod                     - provides fortune cookies on demand
i   fortunes                        - Data files containing fortune cookies
i   fortunes-min                    - Data files containing fortune cookies

fwiw, also etch.  I can only guess charset clash (ASCII/utf-8), and it
knows not to bother opening anything as it knows it can't translate?  Guess.


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