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- When is run with no arguments it prints out a random epigram.
- Epigrams are divided into several categories, where each category
- is subdivided into those which are potentially offensive and
- those which are not. The options are as follows: Choose from all
- lists of maxims, both offensive and not. Consider all fortune
- files to be of equal size (see discussion below on multiple
- files). Print out the list of files which would be searched, but
- don't print a fortune. Long dictums only. Print out all
- fortunes which match the regular expression See for a description
- of patterns. Choose only from potentially offensive aphorisms.
- Please, please, please request a potentially offensive fortune if
- and only if you believe, deep down in your heart, that you are
- willing to be offended. (And that if you are, you'll just quit
- using -o rather than give us grief about it, okay?) ... let us
- keep in mind the basic governing philosophy of The Brotherhood,
- as handsomely summarized in these words: we believe in healthy,
- hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if
- needs be. Needs be. -- H. Allen Smith, "Rude Jokes" Short
- apothegms only. Ignore case for patterns. Wait before
- termination for an amount of time calculated from the number of
- characters in the message. This is useful if it is executed as
- part of the logout procedure to guarantee that the message can be
- read before the screen is cleared. The user may specify
- alternate sayings. You can specify a specific file, a directory
- which contains one or more files, or the special word which says
- to use all the standard databases. Any of these may be preceded
- by a percentage, which is a number between 0 and 100 inclusive,
- followed by a If it is, there will be a percent probability that
- an adage will be picked from that file or directory. If the
- percentages do not sum to 100, and there are specifications
- without percentages, the remaining percent will apply to those
- files and/or directories, in which case the probability of
- selecting from one of them will be based on their relative sizes.
- As an example, given two databases and with twice as big, saying
- will get you fortunes out of two-thirds of the time. The command
- will pick out 90% of its fortunes from (the is unnecessary, since
- 10% is all that's left). The option says to consider all files
- equal; thus is equivalent to Ken Arnold
-