cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes2

Ruslan Ermilov ru at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 2 01:10:41 PST 2005


On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:17:20PM -0600, Sean Kelly wrote:
> 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 that
> > >it looks at both files anyway:
> ...
> 
> > A few years ago, I thought it was due to an old performance limitation 
> > 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.
> 
After merging the two datfiles, I've got 1695 duplicates with my script!


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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