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Date:      Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:12:11 -0800
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Sean Kelly <smkelly@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes2
Message-ID:  <41FFF0AB.5010605@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050201210643.GA14249@edgemaster.zombie.org>
References:  <200502011548.j11FmmKH057406@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050201205633.GA47912@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20050201210643.GA14249@edgemaster.zombie.org>

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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 that
> it looks at both files anyway:
> 
> $ fortune -f
> ___% /usr/share/games/fortune
>     ___% fortunes
>     ___% fortunes2
> 

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

-- 
Nate



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