Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!yorkohm!pete From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-Pete French.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: acorn fortune file encryption Message-ID: <1991Jun5.132745.11743@ohm.york.ac.uk> Date: 5 Jun 91 13:27:45 GMT References: Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK Lines: 28 in article , jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) says: > In-reply-to: john@acorn.co.uk's message of 31 May 91 21:33:29 GMT > > In article <7382@acorn.co.uk> john@acorn.co.uk (John Bowler) writes: >>You could probably convert it to a big-endian architecture >>by intelligent application of byte swapping (you need the strfile.h >>header file of course - copyright you-know-who). > > The BSD 4.3 fortune package, including strfile, was posted to > comp.sources.games a long time ago (volume 3?). It can be found at > most major archives (although it was corrupted at uunet last time I > checked). Well, despite all the intelligent responses (thanks ppl - especially you lot at acorn) the answer still eludes me. There is _NO_ ascii text in the file. It bears a remarkable similarity to a file that someone has edited with vi and then exited with a capital X by mistake and a null password (this happens a lot round here - dont know why, and we havent found a way of recovering the files yet !). I give up. -bat. -- -Pete French. (the -bat. ) / "Two wrongs don't make a right, Adaptive Systems Engineering / - but three lefts do !" "Look here, a Brit who has obviously been driving in California!"