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- Peti's Fortune Cookie
- =====================
-
- written by Peter Simons <simons@peti.GUN.de>
-
-
- Fortune is in the public domain, meaning you may spread, use and
- modify it without any restrictions. Go ahead, do what you want.
-
-
- What is it?
- -----------
-
- Fortune is a small utility for your entertainment. It's only purpose is
- to randomly choose a line out of a text database and to display it on the
- screen. Usually, these databases contain funny things like Murphy's Laws
- and similar things. Fortune can be used to show you a different gag each
- time you boot your machine or it can append a sentence to each Usenet
- posting you write, there are no limitations.
-
-
- Installation
- ------------
-
- All you have to do to install Fortune properly is to copy the
- executable somewhere into your command path, usually 'C:'. Additionally,
- you should copy the included demo database ('s/fortune.data') to your 'S:'
- directory, where Fortune expects it as default.
-
- If you use Fortune very often, you should add the line 'resident
- Fortune' to your startup-sequence or user-startup script, what will speed
- up the whole process a little bit. (See your system-software manual for
- further details on the resident command.)
-
-
- Commandline Usage
- -----------------
-
- If the database has been copied to 'S:', Fortune can be started without
- any parameters. But if you want Fortune to use another database or just
- want to store it in another place, you have to provide the path to the
- textfile via commandline.
-
- Example: "Fortune UULIB:MyNewFortuneData"
-
-
- The database
- ------------
-
- You can edit the database using every standard text editor. The format
- is the following:
-
- # a comment-line
- fortune1
- fortune2
- fortune3
- fortune3
- fortune3
- fortune4
-
- The first line of the file is a comment and won't be used by Fortune.
- Then every line is taken as one fortune. If you need several lines for one
- fortune, you have to indent the text with a blank beginning with the second
- line. The next fortune has to start at the first column again.
-
-
-
- System requirements
- -------------------
-
- Fortune requires AmigaOS 2.04 or later.
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