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+
+<article>
+
+<title>Fortune Mini-HOWTO (english)</title>
+<author>Walter Harms </author>
+<date>Version 0.01, 19.05.2004</date>
+
+<abstract>
+How to use use fortune to generate cookies. 
+</abstract>
+
+<toc>
+
+<sect>Introduction
+<p>
+When a user logs into a system normally the /etc/motd is displayed. ( You can
+disable this by creating the file &tilde;/.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. 
+
+<sect>Usage of fortune, strfile and unstr
+<p>
+The programs have clear distinguished jobs: presentation, assembly and
+disassembly of the fortune databases. 
+
+<sect1>Fortune
+<p>
+fortune is the presenter program. A simple application is to call the
+program in the crontab and modify the /etc/motd. e.g.:
+<code>
+ */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
+</code>
+You can also specify more than one database file. Then fortune will consider
+both files equally often.
+<code>
+
+> fortune  myquotes  startrek
+</code>
+Some people like some quotes more than others. So your can manipulate the
+equilibrium by adding probabilities.
+<code>
+
+> fortune  90% myquotes  10% startrek
+</code>
+fortune has some additional command line switches but its beyond the
+scope of this document to explain them. check the man page instead.
+
+<sect1>generating a fortune database
+<p>
+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  &percnt; e.g.:
+<code>
+quote 1
+%
+quote 2
+%
+quote 3
+%
+quote 5
+</code>
+This is not a very effective way. Therefor is the strfile program.It will
+process the ASCII-file and add a binary helper. The &lt;myquotes&gt; will 
+accompanied by &lt;myquotes&gt;.dat .
+<code>
+
+> strfile myquotes
+</code>
+The &lt;myquotes&gt;.dat will by copied into the directory where the datafiles are stored.
+This is usually <tt>/usr/share/fortune</tt>. Check the installation with:
+<code>
+>fortune myquotes
+</code>
+
+<sect1> unstr
+<p>
+This is what the man-page says:
+<code>
+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.
+</code>
+
+<sect> other files to have fun with
+<p>
+An other possible target is <tt>.signature</tt>. 
+Any selfrespecting mailprogram will add that to an outgoing mail.
+
+<sect> remarks
+<p>
+The patchnames mentioned here are based on the actual fortune package.
+Distribution may change the place to somewhere.
+<p>
+Beside fortune there are several other programs that select random
+quotes from a database. 
+<p>
+Be carefull when choosing quotes. There are people who take them serious like:
+<code>
+====### 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!"
+</code>
+
+</article>
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