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Re: elisp question
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Tim McNamara |
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Re: elisp question |
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Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:05:02 -0600 |
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"N. Raghavendra" <raghu@mri.ernet.in> writes:
> At 2005-12-01T13:32:02-06:00, Tim McNamara wrote:
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>> Thank you, I will look into that further. I didn't realize that
>> Emacs had its own fortune program and had errantly thought that the
>> standard Unix fortune was being called.
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> `fortune.el' does use the standard Unix command fortune(6) to do the
> actual work. However, the cookie files used by fortune(6) need not
> be the standard ones. They could, for instance, be the Dhammapada
> verses you want to use.
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> I forgot to point out that before you can do what I had suggested,
> you need to create the data files for your fortunes, using
> strfile(8):
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> cd ~/kaya; for i in [0-9]*; do strfile $i; done
Thank you for that!
- Re: elisp question, (continued)
Re: elisp question, Tim McNamara, 2005/12/01