[svlug] fortune cookies: do you have some favorites?

[Jesse Monroy]

Apparently, more newbies here than at realized. ;-)
I guess I should have been more specific. I wanted fortune-cookie files.

Thanks to Gary Sublett for the link.

For the unknowing, the original fortune(6) program had a simple purpose.
To print a one-line aphorism chosen at random.
http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/6/fortune

It is worth knowing, the BSD improvement was to extend the
one-line to multi-line. The percent sign (%) is the delimiter.

While this program might seem frivolous (well it is), we the following gems.
%
43rd Law of Computing:
	Anything that can go wr
fortune: Segmentation violation -- Core dumped
%
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well
as afterward.
%

Lastly, the tcltk program that uses the fortune is now on github, for
those interested.
Warts and all.

git clone https://github.com/jessemonroy650/totd

Jesse