Fortune.pm
version 0.2
26 February 2000
Greg Ward <gward@python.net>
Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Gregory P. Ward. All rights reserved. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
This module provides an interface to fortune cookie databases, as implemented by the fortune-mod-9708 distribution (which is widely used in the Linux world, and available with at least the Red Hat and Debian distributions).
Currently, it is a read-only interface. If I ever need to a read-write interface, I suppose I'll write one; if you need one, feel free to write it and send me a patch!
The latest version of this module will be available at:
http://starship.python.net/~gward/perl/
If you need a full-blown fortune package, try fortune-mod, which should be available at:
http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~dbugger/hacks/hacks.html
Thanks to Bill Ward <wrw@bayview.com> for adding the code that allows reading a fortune file that doesn't have a header (index) file.
$Id: README,v 1.2 2000/02/27 02:28:13 greg Exp $