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Old 08-23-2004, 10:19 AM   #1
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How to Create Fortune Database


I have been googling around for a while but I can't seem to find my answer. I want to create my own fortune files. By googling I have found a lot of fortune files to add but nothing on how they create them.

I know there are always 2 files. One is a .DAT file and the other is the text. Does anyone know how to create these or where I might find the instructions to creat them?

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Old 08-25-2004, 08:48 PM   #2
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Well, it's been a couple of days. I still can't find my answer. Anyone else have any ideas?

Dave
 
Old 08-25-2004, 09:05 PM   #3
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Ok, once again google comes through for me. This was a touch one to find though. In case someone else is interested here is how you create your own Fortune Database:

create a file with quotes separated by %

%
silly quote 1
%
silly quote 2
%

call it sillyqoutes - and copy it to your fortunes directory (say
/usr/share/games/fortunes/) or wherever your fortunes are

Then run

# strfile sillyquotes

Then all you have to do is run fortune sillyquotes

Works great. Very easy to make.

Hope this helps somebody else,
Dave
 
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Old 09-16-2004, 01:48 PM   #4
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This was a big help for me. I just googled for it and found your post right off. Thanks for the info!

- Mike
 
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Thanks

Thanks. It worked for me too. But I had to specify the path to the sillyquotes file I created.

Buzz

Last edited by buzzbomb; 01-07-2009 at 01:36 PM. Reason: add more shtuff
 
Old 08-03-2010, 04:41 AM   #6
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Thanks. It worked for me too. But I had to specify the path to the sillyquotes file I created.

Buzz
No you don't have to do so. Just move the files to /usr/share/games/fortune. This is where fortune stores its database files. fortune will randomly select one of those files to pick a quote.
 
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