Getting an un-encrypted fortunes.dat

Howard Chu hyc at math.lsa.umich.edu
Fri Jan 13 13:22:07 AEST 1989


In article <2673 at m2-net.UUCP> mju at m-net.UUCP (Marc Unangst) writes:
>Well, I just got the Minix version of fortune yesterday,
>and it looks good.  However, I'm looking for a replacement for the
>tiny fortunes.dat file (4k) that was included with it.  I've tried
>just downloading the /usr/games/lib/fortunes.dat file on Unix
>systems, but this appears to be encrypted (to keep people from peeking?).

On a BSD machine, it's not encrypted, but it *is* stored in dbm format.
Not to prevent peeking, but to speed up accesses. I've got a plain text
version of the file around here somewhere... (Needed it for a port to
MTS...)
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