On Nov 16, 2007 12:14 PM, Chris King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/15/07, bharder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Didn't work on my Debian Etch, though :P
> >
> > Nor on a FreeBSD box I just tried -- becoming less and less portable the 
> > more it's explored ;)
>
> OHHH I figured out what was happening... I thought I was using the
> binary from Debian, but it turns out I was actually using the one from
> plan9port!  So you're right, this is portable only if your definition
> of "portable" only includes Plan 9 :P
>
> I swear I had seen this trick before somewhere though... either it was
> only for Plan 9, or it used some other similar program instead of
> fortune.

 Ahaha: which fortune => /opt/plan9/bin/fortune ;)
 Makes sense - plan 9 fortunes are only one line.
-sqweek

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