cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes2
    Nate Lawson 
    nate at root.org
       
    Tue Feb  1 13:12:19 PST 2005
    
    
  
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.
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