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To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
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Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> -C is silly.  It adds a flag to the header of the generated files to say
> "this data *might* have a comment".  fortune looks to see if there "might"
> be a comment and skips the double delimiters if so.  The double delimiter
> is otherwise illegal.  If an old fortune binary sees a new file, it won't
> know about the double delimiter.  If a new fortune sees the double
> delimiter it will ignore it.  This is exactly the same behavior that would
> happen if -C was unconditional.

That is not true. Just try making a file without -C containing a
"comment" and then fortune'ing it.

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