Shows a random quotation from collections of quotes.
Fun-loving system administrators can add fortune to system or user
login or profile scripts so they get their dose of wisdom on each
login.
For more information see the project home pages:
https://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/fortune-mod
https://github.com/shlomif/fortune-mod
The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:
- fortune-mod 3.26
For changes since the previous Cygwin release see below or after
installation read /usr/share/doc/fortune-mod/ChangeLog:
https://github.com/shlomif/fortune-mod/blob/master/fortune-mod/ChangeLog
2026-01-18 3.26.0
- Add new list of Terry Pratchett quotes.
- Specifying percentage for "all" breaks if both FORTDIR and LOCFORTDIR
have fortunes.
- Fix functionality on Windows: text-mode / etc.
- Add Docker-based build+test programs to the Git repository.
- New fortune cookies, and corrections.
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