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Date:      Tue, 7 Jan 1997 11:27:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      John-Mark Gurney <jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   bin/2402: extra quote at the end of a fortune...
Message-ID:  <199701071927.LAA02680@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <199701071950.LAA07282@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         2402
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       extra quote at the end of a fortune...
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan  7 11:50:00 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John-Mark Gurney
>Organization:
Cu Networking
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386
>Environment:
probably any BSD with the fortunes database
	

>Description:

this fortune:
YOW!!  Everybody out of the GENETIC POOL!"
has an extra quote at the end of it..
	

>How-To-Repeat:

while ! fortune | grep 'YOW!!  Everybody'; do
done

then let sit for a while :)
	

>Fix:
	
apply this patch:

Index: fortunes
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -c -r1.3 fortunes
*** fortunes	1996/11/22 22:16:25	1.3
--- fortunes	1997/01/07 19:21:48
***************
*** 16278,16284 ****
  "Yow!  Am I having fun yet?"
  		-- Zippy the Pinhead
  %
! YOW!!  Everybody out of the GENETIC POOL!"
  %
  Zero Defects, n.:
  	The result of shutting down a production line.
--- 16278,16284 ----
  "Yow!  Am I having fun yet?"
  		-- Zippy the Pinhead
  %
! YOW!!  Everybody out of the GENETIC POOL!
  %
  Zero Defects, n.:
  	The result of shutting down a production line.
	

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
John-Mark Gurney



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