Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:24:29 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <20050202102316.K88344@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20050202181848.B1D6F5D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <20050202181848.B1D6F5D07@ptavv.es.net>
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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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