keith@seismo.UUCP (Keith Bostic) (03/04/85)
A few days ago, a "new" version of fortune(6) was posted in net.sources.games. This fortune program is Berkeley's and was written by Ken Arnold. Do not run it unless you are properly licensed for Berkeley's software. If you are not so licensed and you'd like to run fortune, I have posted a complete rewrite of the fortune software to net.sources.games. This software is explicitly placed in the public domain and anyone may use/abuse it. It does everything that *any* of the posted/available fortune(6) programs do. I have not included seismo's fortune database, mostly because it currently contains about 10K items. If you would like a copy of said database, please contact me personally. Also, I'm always interested in obtaining new fortune entries. If you have any local/new items, I'd be very interested in hearing about them. Enjoy! Keith Bostic ARPA: keith@seismo UUCP: seismo!keith
play@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer) (03/04/85)
1. When using the 'sortjokes' script, beware of the bug in sort (as documented in the manual: "sort silently truncates very long lines"). This means that you cannot sort jokes containing more than about a thousand characters (and several of the posted ones do) without recompiling sort with a bigger constant L. Very annoying. 2. The posted 'obscene' file is identical to the standard BSD version, except that some spelling mistakes have been corrected. The posted 'cleanjokes' is a proper subset of the standard BSD version, again some spelling mistakes were corrected. (In case that matters: We are running BSD4.2.)