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01-May-2004, 12:18 AM #1
Fortune... ported?
Anyone ever spotted a win32 build of fortune? or is fortune just a script.... (i'm not at my box, so i cant check it..)
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01-May-2004, 12:34 AM #2
fortune as in the fortune cookie program?

if so i believe that its just a php script
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01-May-2004, 12:42 AM #3
Not php... shell perhaps, but i'm not on my box. (Try running locate fortune, then cat (wherever fortune lies). That will tell you forsure.
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01-May-2004, 01:02 AM #4
hmm unfortunately i'd have to actually download it

however from reading some of the readme's on it. I find it doubtful for a win32 mod, toher then maybe a way that it could run within cgywin. Only way i could see it working easily in windows.

Since it seems to require linux specific files and such.

/me is being semi lazy in otherwords
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01-May-2004, 06:37 AM #5
fortune print a randomly, hopefully interesting adage (epigram) - that was quoted from man page.
hmmm interesting, I'll use it on my page. Thx, Whiteskin!
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01-May-2004, 01:55 PM #6
I love fortune. Some of the stuff you get out of it just great.
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