RickSisler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > RickSisler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Kevin B. O'Brien ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [...] > > > OK, I got it working. The problem was that I left out some quote > > > marks in what I was echoing. > > > > > > Now I am getting everything as one line. How do I insert a "return" > > > to get a new line? > Kevin and anyone else who doesn't know, > > you can create your own quotes file that fortune will parse. > In a plain text editor, write your quotes, separating each one with > a percent sign on its own line. For example: > > % > Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. > % > You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. > % > He who laughs last laughs loudest > % woops, forgot the most important part: in a terminal type the command:
strfile myquotes (you may have to be root for this, but it worked for my regular user just now) It will create "myquotes.dat" Then.. > Assuming you save this file as "myquotes," > just point fortune to it: > > $> fortune /path/to/myquotes > He who laughs last laughs loudest (this was passed around on the newbie list in the last couple years) -- RickS The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. --Albert Einstein ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
