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diff --git a/upstream/debian-unstable/man6/fortune.6 b/upstream/debian-unstable/man6/fortune.6 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2939d97a --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/debian-unstable/man6/fortune.6 @@ -0,0 +1,280 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: fortune.6,v 1.4 1995/03/23 08:28:37 cgd Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" Ken Arnold. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)fortune.6 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 +.\" +.\" This version of the man page has been modified heavily, like the +.\" program it documents. Some of the changes may be exclusive to +.\" Linux. Amy A. Lewis, September, 1995. +.\" +.\" Changes Copyright (c) 1997 Dennis L. Clark. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" The changes in this file may be freely redistributed, modified or +.\" included in other software, as long as both the above copyright +.\" notice and these conditions appear intact. +.\" +.TH FORTUNE 6 "19 April 94 [May. 97]" "BSD Experimental" "UNIX Reference Manual" +.SH NAME +fortune \- print a random, hopefully interesting, adage +.SH SYNOPSIS +.BR fortune " [" \-acefilosuw "] [" \-n +.IR length "] [" +.B \-m +.IR pattern "] [[" n% "] " file/dir/all ] +.SH DESCRIPTION +When +.B fortune +is run with no arguments it prints out a random epigram. Epigrams are +divided into several categories, where each category is sub\-divided +into those which are potentially offensive and those which are not. +.SS Options +The options are as follows: +.TP +.B \-a +Choose from all lists of maxims, both offensive and not. (See the +.B \-o +option for more information on offensive fortunes.) +.TP +.B \-c +Show the cookie file from which the fortune came. +.TP +.B \-e +Consider all fortune files to be of equal size (see discussion below +on multiple files). +.TP +.B \-f +Print out the list of files which would be searched, but don't +print a fortune. +.TP +.B \-l +Long dictums only. See +.B \-n +on how ``long'' is defined in this sense. +.TP +.BI "\-m " pattern +Print out all fortunes which match the basic regular expression +.IR pattern . +The syntax of these expressions depends on how your system defines +.BR re_comp "(3) or " regcomp (3), +but it should nevertheless be similar to the syntax used in +.BR grep (1). +.sp +.RS +The fortunes are output to standard output, while the names of the file +from which each fortune comes are printed to standard error. Either or +both can be redirected; if standard output is redirected to a file, the +result is a valid fortunes database file. If standard error is +.I also +redirected to this file, the result is +.IR "still valid" , +.B but there will be ``bogus'' +.BR fortunes , +i.e. the filenames themselves, in parentheses. This can be useful if you +wish to remove the gathered matches from their original files, since each +filename\-record will precede the records from the file it names. +.RE +.TP +.BI "\-n " length +Set the longest fortune length (in characters) considered to be +``short'' (the default is 160). All fortunes longer than this are +considered ``long''. Be careful! If you set the length too short and +ask for short fortunes, or too long and ask for long ones, fortune goes +into a never\-ending thrash loop. +.TP +.B \-o +Choose only from potentially offensive aphorisms. The \-o option is +ignored if a fortune directory is specified. +.sp +.B Please, please, please request a potentially +.B offensive fortune if and only if +.B you believe, deep in your heart, +.B that you are willing to be +.B offended. (And that you'll just quit +.BR using " \-o " rather +.B than give us grief about it, +.B okay?) +.sp +.RS +\&... let us keep in mind the basic governing philosophy of The +Brotherhood, as handsomely summarized in these words: we believe in +healthy, hearty laughter \-\- at the expense of the whole human race, if +needs be. Needs be. +.RS +\-\-H. Allen Smith, "Rude Jokes" +.RE +.RE +.TP +.B \-s +Short apothegms only. See +.B \-n +on which fortunes are considered ``short''. +.TP +.B \-i +Ignore case for +.IR \-m +patterns. +.TP +.B \-w +Wait before termination for an amount of time calculated from the +number of characters in the message. This is useful if it is executed +as part of the logout procedure to guarantee that the message can be +read before the screen is cleared. +.TP +.B \-u +Don't translate UTF\-8 fortunes to the locale when searching or translating. +.PP +The user may specify alternate sayings. You can specify a specific +file, a directory which contains one or more files, or the special word +.I all +which says to use all the standard databases. Any of these may be +preceded by a percentage, which is a number +.I n +between 0 and 100 inclusive, followed by a +.IR % . +If it is, there will be a +.I n +percent probability that an adage will be picked from that file or +directory. If the percentages do not sum to 100, and there are +specifications without percentages, the remaining percent will apply +to those files and/or directories, in which case the probability of +selecting from one of them will be based on their relative sizes. +.PP +As an example, given two databases +.IR funny " and " not\-funny ", with " funny +twice as big (in number of fortunes, not raw file size), saying +.RS +.sp +.B fortune +.I funny not\-funny +.sp +.RE +will get you fortunes out of +.I funny +two\-thirds of the time. The command +.RS +.sp +.B fortune +.RI "90% " funny " 10% " not\-funny +.sp +.RE +will pick out 90% of its fortunes from +.I funny +(the ``10% not\-funny'' is unnecessary, since 10% is all that's left). +.PP +The +.B \-e +option says to consider all files equal; thus +.RS +.sp +.B fortune \-e +.I funny not\-funny +.sp +.RE +is equivalent to +.RS +.sp +.B fortune +.RI "50% " funny " 50% " not\-funny +.sp +.RE +.SH FILES +Note: these are the defaults as defined at compile time. +.PP +.PD 0 +.TP +.I /usr/share/games/fortunes +Directory for innoffensive fortunes. +.TP +.I /usr/share/games/fortunes/off +Directory for offensive fortunes. +.PD +.PP +If a particular set of fortunes is particularly unwanted, there is an +easy solution: delete the associated +.I .dat +file. This leaves the data intact, should the file later be wanted, but +since +.B fortune +no longer finds the pointers file, it ignores the text file. +.SH BUGS +The supplied fortune databases have been attacked, in order to correct +orthographical and grammatical errors, and particularly to reduce +redundancy and repetition and redundancy. But especially to avoid +repetitiousness. This has not been a complete success. In the process, +some fortunes may also have been lost. +.PP +The fortune databases are now divided into a larger number of smaller +files, some organized by format (poetry, definitions), and some by +content (religion, politics). There are parallel files in the main +directory and in the offensive files directory (e.g., fortunes/definitions and +fortunes/off/definitions). Not all the potentially offensive fortunes are in +the offensive fortunes files, nor are all the fortunes in the offensive +files potentially offensive, probably, though a strong attempt has been +made to achieve greater consistency. Also, a better division might be +made. +.PP +When passing files to fortune, directories must be specified by absolute +pathnames, and filenames starting with a dot are ignored. See: +http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=241888 +.SH HISTORY +This version of fortune is based on the NetBSD fortune 1.4, but with a +number of bug fixes and enhancements. +.PP +The original fortune/strfile format used a single file; strfile read the +text file and converted it to null\-delimited strings, which were stored +after the table of pointers in the .dat file. By NetBSD fortune 1.4, +this had changed to two separate files: the .dat file was only the header +(the table of pointers, plus flags; see +.IR strfile.h ), +and the text strings were left in their own file. The potential problem +with this is that text file and header file may get out of synch, but the +advantage is that the text files can be easily edited without resorting +to unstr, and there is a potential savings in disk space (on the +assumption that the sysadmin kept both .dat file with strings and the +text file). +.PP +Many of the enhancements made over the NetBSD version assumed a Linux +system, and thus caused it to fail under other platforms, including BSD. +The source code has since been made more generic, and currently works on +SunOS 4.x as well as Linux, with support for more platforms expected in +the future. Note that some bugs were inadvertently discovered and fixed +during this process. +.PP +At a guess, a great many people have worked on this program, many without +leaving attributions. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR re_comp "(3), " regcomp "(3), " strfile "(1), " +.BR unstr (1) |