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Date:      Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:17:20 -0600
From:      Sean Kelly <smkelly@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes2
Message-ID:  <20050201211720.GA14360@edgemaster.zombie.org>
In-Reply-To: <41FFF0AB.5010605@root.org>
References:  <200502011548.j11FmmKH057406@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050201205633.GA47912@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20050201210643.GA14249@edgemaster.zombie.org> <41FFF0AB.5010605@root.org>

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On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:12:11PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:56:33PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >>As we seem to be doing the Spring fortune cleanup:  why are there
> >>2 fortune files (I mean the onese called fortune and fortune2)
> >>to start with?
> >
> >
> >I asked that earlier and got nowhere. They appear to have been imported
> >like that. I see no reason not to glue them together. fortune -f shows t=
hat
> >it looks at both files anyway:
=2E..

> A few years ago, I thought it was due to an old performance limitation=20
> in scanning long files.

Thus the joke answer about UFS not supporting files over 5000 lines? :)
That would make sense, though like I said they were imported like that.

Is there any advantage/disadvantage to putting them together? It would make
it slightly easier to check for duplicates, I suppose.

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