fortune data file and fortune command

[Mark Whetzel]

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?
> 

For that matter, where is the documentation on how to add to or build
a private fortune database?  The man command indicates that a user
file can be specified, but there is no discription of how to build the
beast.
  fortune Command
  
  
  Purpose
  
  Tells a random fortune.
  
   Syntax
  
  fortune [   -] [  -w |  -s |  -l |  -a ] [File]
  
  Description
  
  The fortune command prints a fortune from either the fortunes.dat
  file  or  the  file  specified.  After printing the fortune,  the
  fortune command exits.
  
And goes on to give discriptions of the flags.

Info shows the same, no file layout.

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