is there a mail app that does this?

[A. Khattri]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, John Voigt wrote:

> The fortune text file is just a text file of all of the quotes separated by a
> line containing only a % (percent) character. You can then use strfile (should
> be included with fortune) to create the random access file which fortune
> actually reads. There are a few options for strfile - see the man page. There
> are also a few notes and a readme included with fortune providing more detail.

# cd /usr/share/games/fortune
Directory: /usr/share/games/fortune
# ls -al
total 9050
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 Oct  1 03:31 ./
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel      512 Nov  1  1999 ../
-r--r--r--  1 root  bin     581329 Apr 16  1999 fortunes
-r--r--r--  1 root  bin      73306 Apr 16  1999 fortunes-o
-r--r--r--  1 root  bin       1600 Apr 16  1999 fortunes-o.dat
-r--r--r--  1 root  bin      14096 Apr 16  1999 fortunes.dat
-r--r--r--  1 root  bin    1758407 Apr 16  1999 fortunes2
-r--r--r--  1 root  bin     635752 Apr 16  1999 fortunes2-o
-r--r--r--  1 root  bin       9516 Apr 16  1999 fortunes2-o.dat
-r--r--r--  1 root  bin      38928 Apr 16  1999 fortunes2.dat
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1242792 Oct  1 03:31 jargon
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     9108 Oct  1 03:31 jargon.dat
-r--r--r--  1 root  bin     138531 Apr 16  1999 limerick
-r--r--r--  1 root  bin       3332 Apr 16  1999 limerick.dat
-r--r--r--  1 root  bin      27502 Apr 16  1999 startrek
-r--r--r--  1 root  bin        836 Apr 16  1999 startrek.dat
-r--r--r--  1 root  bin      38745 Apr 16  1999 zippy
-r--r--r--  1 root  bin       2224 Apr 16  1999 zippy.dat
# file j*
jargon:     character Computer Graphics Metafile
jargon.dat: data

# more jargon
1TBS // n.

 The "One True Brace Style"; see indent style.

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120 reset /wuhn-twen'tee ree'set/ n.

 [from 120 volts,
   U.S. wall voltage] To cycle power on a machine in order to reset or
   unjam it.  Compare Big Red Switch, power cycle.

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2 infix.

 In translation software written by hackers, infix
   2 often represents the syllable to with the connotation
   `translate to': as in dvi2ps (DVI to PostScript), int2string
   (integer to string), and texi2roff (Texinfo to [nt]roff).
   Several versions of a joke have floated around the internet in
   which some idiot programmer fixes the Y2K bug by changing all the
   Y's in something to K's, as in Januark, Februark, etc.

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brain dump n.

 [common] The act of telling someone
   everything one knows about a particular topic or project.
   Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a
   piece of code.  Conceptually analogous to an operating system
   core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before
   an exit.  "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before
   you start your new job at HackerCorp."  See core dump (sense
   4).  At Sun, this is also known as `TOI' (transfer of
   information).