Pete's Linux Advent Calendar 2007

The 2nd day

Create your virtual fortune cookie

Here is how to create your own random access file: Create a file with the entries you want to have, delimit them with a percent sign (%) on a line by itself: 
Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote
their own device drivers?

        -- Linus Torvalds,
           Oct, 5th 1991 in comp.os.minix announcing Linux
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Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), ...

        -- Linus Torvalds,
           Oct, 5th 1991 in comp.os.minix announcing Linux
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Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.

        - Brad Knowles
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A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in.
  --Kim Alm, a.s.r

(signature by David Bishop)
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It is assumed that the reader is reasonably familiar with the `dpkg'
System Administrators' manual.  Unfortunately this manual does not yet
exist.

        - from Debian Policy
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Is there any documentation to "iscsistart" other than "iscsistart.c"?

         - Tomasz Chmielewski
then run the command strfile -r fortunes assuming you have saved the file under the name fortunes. This will create a file fortunes.dat. If you now run fortune fortunes a random entry is printed.
Pete's Linux Advent Calendar 2007

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