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From: pvo@uther.CS.ORST.EDU (Paul V O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Mail to fortune (Re: Why is fortune writing to the fortunes.dat file?)
Summary: How?
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Date: 30 May 89 05:47:47 GMT
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This reminds my of my longest, unanswered UN*X question.

Around day 1 of my exposure to UN*X I chanced upon the fortune(6) usage
blurb.  It ended with the sentence:
	Mail suggested fortunes to "fortune"
(Replicate with "/usr/games/fortune -" in SunOS 3.4, 3.5, 4.0 or 4.0.1)

I've learned a lot since then, and manage a few systems now, but I never
have figured out how to mail a fortune to fortune(6). (Only tried the
obvious--aliasing "fortune" to "|/usr/games/fortune" -- didn't work.)

Anybody got a clue?


Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-754-3251