On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 08:52:03AM EDT, bing yu wrote: > thank you for such a explicit reply. > On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 01:29:37AM -0400, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 05:24:09AM EDT, bing yu wrote: > > > hi, maybe this question is addressed quite often,but i still need help > > > scince i can not find answer by google. > > > > "This question" is actually three questions, only two of which have > > anything to do with Mutt, but no matter. . . > i'd better solve these porble one by one. > > > usually in my .muttrc: set signature="fortune|" but i want creat my own. > > > > The filename "fortune|" tells Mutt "instead of reading a real file, just > > run the command 'fortune' and use its output as if it were the file." > > The "fortune" program (which gets called by your shell when Mutt gives it > > the "fortune" command (see $PATH)) has its own (very simple) conventions > > about parsing fortune files, and by issuing "fortune -f" you'll be able > > to find the files it looks in by default. You can add your own database > > (say, muttsigs) with random Mutt signatures (look at an existing one > > for the format), and then use "set signature='fortune muttsigs|'" in > > your RC setup. > > root@SIM:/usr/share/games/fortunes# ls > fortunes fortunes.dat literature riddles > fortunes.bak fortunes.dat.bak literature.dat riddles.dat > > i want learn how to creat my own fortune category by modifying the existing > ones. ~/.muttrc: "set signature="fortune fortunes|"" # by this way i > don't care about literature and riddles category. > > i made a copy of the original fortunes and then delete all but two items > in fortunes, it reads > > ---------fortunes begin ------------- > A day for firm decisions!!!!! Or is it? > % > A few hours grace before the madness begins again. > % > ---------fortunes end ------------- > > now i run root@SIM:/usr/share/games/fortunes# fortune fortunes > root@SIM:/usr/share/games/fortunes# > it output nothing. (before i modified this file, it can print somthing > in fortunes file) > > by now ,i cannot figure out where is the problem. i wild guess is > fortunes.dat does anybody on this list can give me any hint? You seem to be right on the money. (Do you really think fortune would be so quick if it had to parse a standard text file every time?) Google should be your friend :-) - Dave -- Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor? It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right? Please visit this link: http://rotter.net/israel
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