is there a mail app that does this?

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:23:38AM -0500, Matthew Carpenter took 50 lines to write:
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> I'm not sure exactly what you are asking about the program versus text
> editor?  I believe fortune's database is not text-editable (I could be
> wrong) but do you want to do something that "$ fortune > temp.file"
> doesn't get you?

fortune uses two files, a readable data file with fortunes delimited by "%"
signs and an index file to facilitate fast random access to the text file.
See strfile(8) for the index file format and for creating it.

Kurt
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