format of fortune.dat files

Dan Cross crossd at gmail.com
Thu Nov 13 15:03:52 PST 2014


On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't go by the man page.  The Linux version specifies explicit type
widths for the files in strfile.h (specifically, it uses u_int32_t), while
Dragonfly uses "unsigned long."


I should mention my sources:
http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob/c36bd8130d0f62a8100ba285df15fa44fc0c7e86:/games/fortune/strfile/strfile.h
vs strfile.h from
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fortune-mod/fortune-mod_1.99.1.orig.tar.gz

         - Dan C.

(PS: The Linux version is definitely descended from the BSD version; I was
wrong about that.)

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma at leaf.dragonflybsd.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, November 13, 2014 17:11:01 Dan Cross wrote:
>> > Almost certainly a different header structure.  I don't think that the
>> > Berkeley and Linux versions of fortune share much in the way of code,
>> let
>> > alone structure.  But I don't know.
>>
>> The header structure, as described in "man strfile", is the same. The only
>> difference is the extra zeros and that the Linux file begins with 2, even
>> though
>> the man file says that the version is 1.
>>
>> Pierre
>> --
>> The Black Garden on the Mountain is not on the Black Mountain.
>>
>>
>
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