fortune data file and fortune command

[John F Haugh II]

In article <1991May22.215452.7261 at unlinfo.unl.edu> james at engrss2.unl.edu (James Nau) writes:
>Does anyone know what (and why?) fortune changes in the
>/usr/games/lib/fortune/fortune.dat file?  It changes only the first
>"line" (I think it's in the first 128 bytes).  Is it writing a counter
>so that I don't see the same fortune twice?

Yes.

The source code to the fortune program has been posted, and is
available from BSD as well.  You might want to acquire a copy
and examine it.
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