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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: Getting an un-encrypted fortunes.dat
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Date: 13 Jan 89 03:22:07 GMT
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In article <2673@m2-net.UUCP> mju@m-net.UUCP (Marc Unangst) writes:
>Well, I just got the Minix version of fortune yesterday,
>and it looks good.  However, I'm looking for a replacement for the
>tiny fortunes.dat file (4k) that was included with it.  I've tried
>just downloading the /usr/games/lib/fortunes.dat file on Unix
>systems, but this appears to be encrypted (to keep people from peeking?).

On a BSD machine, it's not encrypted, but it *is* stored in dbm format.
Not to prevent peeking, but to speed up accesses. I've got a plain text
version of the file around here somewhere... (Needed it for a port to
MTS...)
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