Re: [slackware-alphadevel] Bug report: fortune

From: Chris Lumens (chris@slackware.com)
Date: Sun Dec 10 2000 - 15:10:40 PST


> The 'fortune' program does not work correctly - it generates no output:
>
> root@odin:~# /usr/games/fortune
> root@odin:~#
>
>
> I cannot get the source to build (I must admit that I did not try very
> hard), the configure script crashes with a segmentation fault after the
> question about 'Binary group'.

The fortune from bsd-games 2.7 works only marginally better. Instead of
outputting nothing, it appears to output all the fortunes. I was hoping
that it would just work and I could patch it all up. But that does not
appear to be the case. I guess I'll have to do some more hunting on this
one...

-- 
Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
@n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"\n";



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