Places to download fortune databases?

vrillusions · 06-09-2005, 10:18 AM

I found a couple sites before but spent around an hour last night searching and couldn't find them. Mainly trying to find an alice in wonderland one but just a site with any collection of fortunes would be helpful. thanks.

keefaz · 06-09-2005, 10:47 AM

You could make your own :
- create a text file with some fortune content
with a blank line containing only '%' between
each block of text, say name it 'myfortune'
(add a % after the last text block)

-copy this file into /usr/share/games/fortunes/
(for slackware fortunes databases are here)

-create the .dat file :
strfile /usr/share/games/fortunes/myfortune

This way you added your own fortune, you could
explicitly call it with :
fortune -a myfortune

[edit]
also I found this one for download fortune databases :
http://freshmeat.net/browse/895/?topic_id=895
enjoy

becko · 07-15-2023, 05:37 PM

Seinfeld is big enough.

Others are fine, but small

https://sourceforge.net/projects/for...necookies/1.0/

TB0ne · 07-15-2023, 06:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by becko

Seinfeld is big enough.
Others are fine, but small

https://sourceforge.net/projects/for...necookies/1.0/

This had been close for eighteen years; I think the OP moved on.