Greetings fellow thespians,
Basically I'd better GOMA and collate my findings when trying to source
the old "fortune" cookie program, as ported to to DigiUNIX
Thankyou to:
David Bremer DaveB_at_healthotago.co.nz
Richard L Jackson Jr rjackson_at_portal.gmu.edu
Robert L. McMillin rlm_at_syseca-us.com
Tim Mooney mooney_at_dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu
Richard L Jackson Jr wrote:
> I ftp'ed it from gatekeeper.dec.com in /contrib/src/dco/fortune/src in 1993
> and compile and run it on both ULTRIX and DU. My notes for building it on
> the DU system follows...
> 1. cd /sys1/src
> 2. mkdir fortune
> 3. cd fortune
> 4. ftp files
> 5. modify datfiles/Makefile
> 6. modify fortune/fortune.c
> 7. modify fortune/Makefile
> 8. make
> 9. mkdir /usr/local/fortune (755 root.system)
> 10. mv datfiles/for* /usr/local/fortune (644 root.system)
> 11. cd ../fortune
> 12. strip fortune
> 13. mv fortune /usr/local/bin (755 root.system)
> 14. cp fortune.6 /usr/local/man/man1/fortune.1
> 15. cd ..
> 16. make clean
Robert L. McMillin writes:
> This stuff is all available on your friendly neighborhood Linux CD
> distribution. I find it's useful to buy the new ones whenever they come
> out because they have so much of this sort of thing on them. I think
> that the fortune program hearkens back to BSD, so you might also find
> this in releases of those programs.
Tim Mooney writes:
> I grabbed the `fortune' source from one of the Linux sites and tweaked it
> just a bit, and it's been working happily on my system every since. Try
> looking in
> http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/games/amusements/
> If you have problems getting one of those to compile or work shoot me some
> email and I'll see if I can dig up the source I modified.
I took him up on the offer, because I had funny things happening when
attempting to get a clean compile & link of the solutions already
offered to which he kindly replied:
> >It appears to be a complete hack, any enlightenment of this dark and
> >mysterious cruft from the dawn of time would be muchly appreciated...
> Grab my sources from:
> ftp://dogbert.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu/pub/fortune.tar.Z
> And try them. You'll need to
> 1) modify the top level Makefile to indicate where you want the stuff to
> go.
> 2) modify fortune/pathnames.h to indicate where you want the fortune
> directory.
> 3) Do a `make clean' and a `make' and see what happens. You may need to
> build the *.dat files by hand in the the datfile directory.
> 4) Give it a try!
> BTW, if you're running under 3.2x and any of the programs fail to link, try
> `-lisode' on the link lines in the various makefiles.
> Let me know if you run into problems,
David Bremer wrote:
> PLEASE post a summary if you find it - I remember that on a VAX when I
> was at Uni - it was fun
Which I have now just done...
Have a Happy Easter..
fRAnX.
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