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From: jpr@jpradley.uucp (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: PD fortune program or data format for Sun
Message-ID: <1990Nov10.012220.1919@jpradley.uucp>
Date: 10 Nov 90 01:22:20 GMT
References: <13689@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Reply-To: jpr@jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
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In article <13689@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> mark@kraken.ucsd.edu (Mark Anderson) writes:
>I would like to build my own database of fortunes.  The 
>man page for the fortune programs says that it will take
>and optional [filename].  No one locally seems to know
>what that format is or where any documentation on it is.
>
>Alternately, if there is source for a public domain program,
>I could use it instead.

In Library 11 of the UnixForum on CompuServe, there's a handful of
fortune/cookie programs.

 Jean-Pierre Radley          HIGH-Q	     jpr@jpradley	CIS: 72160,1341