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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 20:11:00 -0800 (PST)
From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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Subject: misc/2520: fortune has bad/hard to understand grammer
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>Number:         2520
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       fortune has bad/hard to understand grammer
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jan 17 20:20:01 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John-Mark Gurney
>Organization:
Cu Networking
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386
>Environment:

and bsd environment with the fortunes installed...
	

>Description:

basic a fortunes has bad/hard to understand grammer..
	

>How-To-Repeat:

run fortune a long time till you get the fortune
	

>Fix:
	
apply this patch:

Index: fortunes
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -c -r1.4 fortunes
*** fortunes	1997/01/08 07:04:41	1.4
--- fortunes	1997/01/18 04:02:40
***************
*** 8579,8586 ****
  Malek's Law:
  	Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.
  %
! Man 1:	Ask me the what the most important thing about telling a good
! 	joke is.
  
  Man 2:	OK, what is the most impo --
  
--- 8579,8586 ----
  Malek's Law:
  	Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.
  %
! Man 1:	Ask me.  "What is the most important thing about telling a good
! 	joke?"
  
  Man 2:	OK, what is the most impo --
  
	

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
John-Mark Gurney