format of fortune.dat files

[Dan Cross]

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."

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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