Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 22:12:05 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/bin/fortune Message-ID: <199601032112.WAA00722@knobel.gun.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960103135908.6638G-100000@latte.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Jan 3, 96 02:00:46 pm
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> > > It's been recently broken, only about one call in 3 now succeeds. I
> > > looked at the source code, and I am frankly amazed at how such a simple
> > > program could be so incredibly complicated.
> >
> > I supped fortune from -current at Dec, 28.
> > while(1)
> > fortune
> > end
> >
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 232 Nov 14 1994 Makefile
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8320 Sep 4 1994 Notes
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2303 Sep 4 1994 README
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 28 23:10 datfiles
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 28 23:10 fortune
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 28 23:10 strfile
> > ^^
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 19 1994 tools
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 19 1994 unstr
> > ^^
>
> I might be a little slow in the uptake, I don't get what you're saying.
> Maybe you should say it again, speaking slowly and using short words (8-).
Oh, boy ... too much parties in the last two weeks, really ;-)
Seems to be that I was fighting a bit with the editor, with
my brain or with both ;-)
All I wanted to say was, that I couldn't reproduce the
error. I made a little script to see if fortune works or
not. It did well. As a reference I showed you the date
of the src directories, so that you can see, what I got
when supping -current these days.
The marker (^) should lead your attention to the fact, that
some days there was an update of some files. To be short:
sup the newest version and please try again, since it works
perfectly here ...
Hope I got the right words now ;-)
Andreas ///
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