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+  Fortune Mini-HOWTO (english)
+  Walter Harms
+  Version 0.01, 19.05.2004
+
+  How to use use fortune to generate cookies.
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+
+  Table of Contents
+
+
+  1. Introduction
+  2. Usage of fortune, strfile and unstr
+     2.1 Fortune
+     2.2 generating a fortune database
+     2.3 unstr
+
+  3. other files to have fun with
+  4. remarks
+
+
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+
+  1.  Introduction
+
+  When a user logs into a system normally the /etc/motd is displayed. (
+  You can disable this by creating the file ~/.hushlogin.) You will be
+  greeted by something like ''welcome to 127.0.0.1''. That is boring.
+
+  Here comes ''fortune'' to the rescue. The package comes with 3
+  programs: fortune,strfile and unstr.
+
+
+  2.  Usage of fortune, strfile and unstr
+
+  The programs have clear distinguished jobs: presentation, assembly and
+  disassembly of the fortune databases.
+
+
+  2.1.  Fortune
+
+  fortune is the presenter program. A simple application is to call the
+  program in the crontab and modify the /etc/motd. e.g.:
+
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+   */10 * * * * /usr/bin/fortune >/etc/motd
+
+  To select a given database with quotes simply add the database as argument.
+
+   */10 * * * * /usr/bin/fortune myquotes >/etc/motd
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+
+
+  You can also specify more than one database file. Then fortune will
+  consider both files equally often.
+
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+
+  > fortune  myquotes  startrek
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+
+
+  Some people like some quotes more than others. So your can manipulate
+  the equilibrium by adding probabilities.
+
+
+
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+
+  > fortune  90% myquotes  10% startrek
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+
+
+  fortune has some additional command line switches but its beyond the
+  scope of this document to explain them. check the man page instead.
+
+
+  2.2.  generating a fortune database
+
+  Now we come to terms. Pick a list of quotes. There are several
+  sources.  Of cause the Internet will provide you with a long list.
+  Choose quotes you like they will appear regularly now. Collect the
+  quotes in one file.  Every quote separated with a line containing a
+  single  % e.g.:
+
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+  quote 1
+  %
+  quote 2
+  %
+  quote 3
+  %
+  quote 5
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+
+
+  This is not a very effective way. Therefor is the strfile program.It
+  will process the ASCII-file and add a binary helper. The <myquotes>
+  will accompanied by <myquotes>.dat .
+
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+
+  > strfile myquotes
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+
+
+  The <myquotes>.dat will by copied into the directory where the
+  datafiles are stored.  This is usually /usr/share/fortune. Check the
+  installation with:
+
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+  >fortune myquotes
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+
+
+
+  2.3.  unstr
+
+  This is what the man-page says:
+
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+  The purpose of unstr is to undo the work of strfile.  It prints out the
+  strings contained in the file source_file in the order that they are
+  listed in the header file source_file.dat to standard output.  It is
+  possible to create sorted versions of input files by using -o when strfile
+  is run and then using unstr to dump them out in the table order.
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+
+
+
+  3.  other files to have fun with
+
+  An other possible target is .signature.  Any selfrespecting
+  mailprogram will add that to an outgoing mail.
+
+
+  4.  remarks
+
+  The patchnames mentioned here are based on the actual fortune package.
+  Distribution may change the place to somewhere.
+
+  Beside fortune there are several other programs that select random
+  quotes from a database.
+
+  Be carefull when choosing quotes. There are people who take them
+  serious like:
+
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+  ====### legal notice ###====-------------------------------------------
+  Microsoft Network is prohibited from redistributing this work in any form, in
+  whole or in part.  License to distribute this post is available to Microsoft
+  for $499.  Posting without permission constitutes an agreement to these terms.
+  walter@linux:~/bericht/fortune> fortune myquotes
+  "You  have the right to remain silent, but I wouldn't encourage you to do
+   so.  Anything you say will be taken down, altered to my satisfaction and
+   used in a court of law to send you down for a good many years!"
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+
+
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