[geeks] fortune

[Phil Stracchino]

Jonathan Katz wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> Anyone know offhand how to rebuild the .dat files for fortune...?
>>
> 
> It's been a long time; I thought they were all text based with %% as a
> separator?

The fortune files are, yes.  But there's also .dat files that are 
clearly generated by one hash tool or another.  I discovered that if you 
fix typos in the, for example, fortunes2 file, and do not rebuild 
fortunes2.dat, then all fortunes in fortunes2 after the point you edited 
will be off by the number of characters you inserted or deleted to fix 
the typo.  Currently half the file is off by two.  I *could* undo my 
edits, but I'd rather figure out how to rebuild the .dat files.




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