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Jim Couch wrote:
> 
> It's a silly little thing, but I would really like to run the fortune program
> at login......
> I can't seem to find it. I did find an Italian version but......
> could someone please point me in the right direction???

Call /usr/games/fortune. First make sure /usr/games/fortune works if
called manually, then put it into the login shell script. For example,
with /bin/sh put something like this into ~/.profile :
  [ -x /usr/games/fortune ] && /usr/games/fortune -a

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