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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@i.virtual-estates.com>
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Subject: tip of the day (Re: codecrusader and ntp)
In-Reply-To: <20000303163542.B47591@azazel.zer0.org> from Gregory Sutter at "Mar
 3, 2000 04:35:42 pm"
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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 10:43:26 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
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> > Someone needs to do a "Command  of the month" section on DaemonNews,
> > in which an  enterprising hacker takes an  obscure command (tsort(1)
> > is another one) and shows all sorts of useful uses it can be put to.
>
> I hear a volunteer... :)

I thought of  a similar idea a'la  "tip of the day". It  would seem, the
existing fortune(6) may be used for  it -- just add another database. It
can even be a different database depending on the user's shell:

	fortune 20% ${SHELL}-tips 60% unix-tips 20% funny

		-mi


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