Messages in this thread |  | | From | Todd Graham Lewis <> | Subject | Re: /proc/thanks (Was: Boot messages) | Date | Thu, 4 Jul 1996 00:16:10 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, Andrew C. Esh wrote:
> we need > Jason> /proc/thanks, or a replacement for fortune that spews > Jason> credit for one random Linux contributor. Why not? -- > > Sure. I'll do you one better: Add famous URLs, FAQ info (like ncftp > does), Did you know ..., and other useful stuff. Might be kinda fun to > get some random infobytes evey time fortune runs.
reflections% while (/bin/true) > do > fortune linuxcookie; read > done
Why this discussion is in the kernel list, I sincerely do not understand. Fortune libraries are trivially easy to make, hence I don't think (I can't believe I'm saying this) that recreating fortune in the kernel is a good idea.
_____________________________________________________________________ Todd Graham Lewis Core Engineering Mindspring Enterprises tlewis@mindspring.com (Standard Disclaimers) (800) 719 4664, x2804
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