rs3r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard E. Stuart) (11/12/90)
Hi, I'm looking for a forture/cookie program that accepts a file of "one-liners" in a straight text format. The one Simpson/fortune program that I've seen has the text of the "one-liners" imbedded in the binary itself. I consider this pretty useless as I am forced for a new "release" just so more lines can be added to the program. If what I'm looking for does not exist then I'd be interested in the source code to a fortune like program that I can modify myself. Thanx, Ed Stuart rs3r+@andrew.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon
teskey@plains.NoDak.edu (Dr. Snake Voivod) (11/13/90)
In article <QbDg=Fm00WB90FwFty@andrew.cmu.edu> rs3r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard E. Stuart) writes: >I'm looking for a forture/cookie program that accepts a file of "one-liners" >in a straight text format. The one Simpson/fortune program that I've seen >has the text of the "one-liners" imbedded in the binary itself. I wrote one in JPI Modula-2 to use the standard fortune library used on Unix systems. It's not quite straight text (there are some embedded formatting commands like linefeeds) but it's easily modifyable and appendable. If this is satisfactory I can send the program (with it's cookie data file) to c.b.i.p. >Ed Stuart >rs3r+@andrew.cmu.edu >Carnegie Mellon ============================================================================ Mark W. Teskey INTERNET: teskey@plains.nodak.edu BITNET: teskey@plains UUCP: ...!uunet!plains!teskey ============================================================================
theall@rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu (11/13/90)
In article <QbDg=Fm00WB90FwFty@andrew.cmu.edu> rs3r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard E. Stuart) writes: >I'm looking for a forture/cookie program that accepts a file of "one-liners" >in a straight text format. I may have just the thing for you. It's a public domain program I wrote to display a randomly selected "quote" - anything delimited by '$' - from an ordinary text file. With an editor you can easily create your own quote datafile or modify the one distributed with the program (currently it holds 550+ quotes). C source is included in the distribution. There's an oldish version of the package available on SIMTEL20 as pd1:<msdos.txtutl>quote22.zip. Version 2.3 fixes a bug arising when small quote datafiles are used. Perhaps in the next couple of days I'll make arrangements to have it placed on SIMTEL20. George --- theall@rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu Dept. of Economics theall@ssctemp.sas.upenn.edu Univ. of Pennsylvania gtheall@penndrls.upenn.edu Philadelphia, PA 19104