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From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles freebsd-tips
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Mikhail Teterin wrote:

> On 16 Jun, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > nik         2001/06/16 04:42:29 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     games/fortune/datfiles freebsd-tips 
> >   Log:
> >   More tips, this time from the Russian Fidonet FreeBSD Echo.
> 
> Speaking of tips, can we have shell-specific tips "subsections"?  When
> asked for tips, the fortune(6) will detect the user's shell and add the
> particular subsection to the pool of quotes to choose from... Things
> like ``setenv NAME value'' vs. ``NAME=value; export NAME'', etc. 

Sounds like you want a usertip(1) which looks at context and gives advice,
or given a specific topic, identifies advice appropriate to that topic?
:-)

Overloading fortune with this might not be the right path forwards: it has
the right properties for a random message, but not for context-sensitive
stuff.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services



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