From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 21 5: 2:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from trltech.demon.co.uk (trltech.demon.co.uk [194.222.7.191]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2A3814F07 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 05:02:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsmith@trltech.co.uk) Received: from ns.sw.wan (ns.sw.wan [192.9.200.19]) by trltech.demon.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA05726; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:02:13 GMT (envelope-from rsmith@trltech.co.uk) Received: from trltech.co.uk (localhost.sw.wan [127.0.0.1]) by ns.sw.wan (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00911; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:01:30 GMT (envelope-from rsmith@trltech.co.uk) Message-ID: <388858AA.5980479E@trltech.co.uk> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:01:30 +0000 From: Richard Smith Organization: http://www.trltech.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fortune(1) candidate References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > "The scanf() function is a large and complex beast that often does > something almost but not quite entirely unlike what you desired." > > -- Chris Torek ... paraphrasing Douglas Adams, but I expect you knew that :-) or vice versa :-/ Richard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message