BSD Ports

games/fortune 19970829 NetBSD

Fortune cookie generator

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc
Maintainer
[email protected]
License
original-bsd
Categories
games
Package size
769.0 KiB, 2372.0 KiB installed

Description

This version of fortune is a modification of the NetBSD fortune, as tweaked by Florian La Roche (see below, and many thanks to Florian for starting the update), and then massively hacked on by Amy Lewis.

I (Amy) hacked on this because it was broken; the BSD source itself is broken (I looked at it). Specifically, if you are using an old version of fortune, then it accesses *only* the two files "fortunes" and "fortunes-o", even though 'fortune -[ao]f' will tell you differently. That was my original reason to start working with the code.

Bug fixes: fortune now reads the same file list that it reports with -f. strfile now really sorts and randomizes, instead of just setting the 'sorted' and 'randomized' flags. strfile does not lose the pointer to a fortune that follows a null fortune.

Enhancements: fortune -f now prints percentages, whether specified on the command line or not. fortune -m now prints filenames to stderr; the fortunes printed to stdout can be redirected into a file which is valid strfile format. fortune -l|s can be modified with -n _number_ to specify the number of characters in a short fortune (default 160, as before). The means of distinguishing between offensive and inoffensive fortunes is changed: offensive fortunes are put in a separate subdirectory. The contents of the fortunes databases have been extensively reviewed, and broken into smaller, more manageable [hopefully] files.

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install fortune

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/games/fortune && make install clean

Dependencies

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