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 Message 133 of 1,939 
 Danny Ceppa to Maurice Kinal 
 bragging rights 
 03 Oct 05 19:57:12 
 
On 02 Oct 05  13:31:46, Maurice Kinal got back to Danny Ceppa 
-> Re: bragging rights

 MK>> "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend: and inside a dog,
 MK>> it's too dark to read."
 MK>> -- Groucho Marx
 
 DC> A good one, but too long for correct tagline length.  

 MK> Then the file that fortune reads from will require all the data
 MK> (taglines) to be less then the maximum length.  Extremely doable. 

The hard part is to keep context.  It's not easy!  


 MK> linux terminal is the best there is so that is what I use.  <=78
 MK> characters is no real problem.  I could train a monkey to create the
 MK> proper access file.  :-) 

The other thing for me is in knowing what taglines I have.  Each and 
every one was purposesly gleaned/stolen/written.  



... Careful!  I've got a tagline file and I know how to use it!
--- OMX/Blue Wave/DOS v2.30
 * Origin: Soundly on the Fault Line (1:138/666.0)

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