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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> > From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Smørgrav?=)
> > Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:16:40 +0100
> > Sender: owner-cvs-all@freebsd.org
> >
> > Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     games/fortune/datfiles fortunes
> > >   Log:
> > >   Removed 1695 fortunes also found in fortunes2.
> >
> > I'd vote for simply merging the two.
>
> I'll admit to being old, but at one time fortune2 was supposed to be for
> longer fortunes while fortune was for one or two line entries. At one
> time fortune2 had some rather long entries. This is less important now
> than it was when we were (OK, I was) logging in on an ASR33 and it took
> 8 seconds for a full line of text.
>
> Do we really want to merge them? (Probably) But should we think about
> keeping fortune as a separate file with all messages from fortune2 that
> are less than about 200 characters. After all, some folks are still on
> fairly slow links.


Either the program can be changed to skip long messages or we can
generate one file from the other automatically with a length parameter.

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