Mail to fortune (Re: Why is fortune writing to the fortunes.dat file?)

[Chris Torek]

In article <10868 at orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> pvo at uther.CS.ORST.EDU
(Paul V O'Neill) writes:
-... fortune(6) usage blurb.  It ended with the sentence:
-	Mail suggested fortunes to "fortune"
-(Replicate with "/usr/games/fortune -" in SunOS 3.4, 3.5, 4.0 or 4.0.1)
-
-I've learned a lot since then, and manage a few systems now, but I never
-have figured out how to mail a fortune to fortune(6). (Only tried the
-obvious--aliasing "fortune" to "|/usr/games/fortune" -- didn't work.)
-
-Anybody got a clue?

The `fortune' alias on ucbvax forwards to Ken Arnold (see the AUTHOR
section of manual entry, unless it has been deleted by your vendor).
New fortunes are added manually, after approval.
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