format of fortune.dat files

Pierre Abbat phma at leaf.dragonflybsd.org
Thu Nov 13 14:45:26 PST 2014


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
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