Re: Making fortunes

1999-04-08 Thread Richard Harran
Thanks: it's working now, but I'm not quite sure how. I copied the first few fortunes into another file, and ran strfile on that and it worked. I then added the other fortunes in chunks to the new file, re-running strfile each time (I was hoping to narrow down where the problem was). However, I

Re: Making fortunes

1999-04-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 07:19:09PM +, Richard Harran wrote: > into something suitable for the fortune program. I tried putting a '%' > (percentage - in case that symbol doesn't travel) on each blank line > between each comment, then running It must be a % and only a % - no trailing spaces.

Making fortunes

1999-04-08 Thread Richard Harran
I have some random rude comments which I want to display at login. I am trying to use the fortunes-mod package to achieve this, but am having difficulty transforming the (plain text) file that contains the comments into something suitable for the fortune program. I tried putting a '%' (percentage