By default, fortune retrieves its fortune files from the directory
/usr/local/share/games/fortune. A fortune file has two parts: the source file
(which contains the fortunes themselves) and the data file which describes
-the fortunes. The data fil always has the same name as the fortune file
+the fortunes. The data file always has the same name as the fortune file
with the string ".dat" concatenated, e.g. if "fort" is a standard fortune
database, then "fort.dat" is the data file which describes it. See
strfile(8) for more information on creating the data files.
Fortunes are split into potentially offensive and not potentially
offensive parts. The offensive version of a file has the same name as the
-non-offensive version but exists in the offensive fortunes directory
+non-offensive version but exists in the offensive fortunes directory
(/usr/local/share/games/fortune/off by default). The fortune program
automatically assumes that any file in the offensive fortune directory
is potentially offensive, and should therefore only be displayed if
explicit language (see George Carlin's recent updated list) MUST be in the
potentially offensive database. Political and religious opinions are often
sequestered in the potentially offensive section as well. Anything which
-assumes as a world view blatantly racist, mysogynist (sexist), or homophobic
+assumes as a world view blatantly racist, misogynist (sexist), or homophobic
ideas should not be in either, since they are not really funny unless *you*
-are racist, mysogynist, or homophobic.
+are racist, misogynist, or homophobic.
The point of this is that people have should have a reasonable
expectation that, should they just run "fortune", they will not be offended.
We know that some people take offense at anything, but normal people do have
-o" or "fortune -a" are saying, in effect, that they are willing to have
their sensibilities tweaked. However, they should not have their personal
worth seriously (i.e., not in jest) assaulted. Jokes which depend for their
-humor on racist, mysogynist, or homophobic stereotypes *do* seriously
+humor on racist, misogynist, or homophobic stereotypes *do* seriously
assault individual personal worth, and in an general entertainment medium
we should be able to get by without it.
No more than debris,
If the input was short of exact.
-Accents precede the letter they are over, e.g., "`^He" for e with a grave
-accent. Underlining is done on a word-by-word basis, with the underlines
-preceding the word, e.g., "__^H^Hhi ____^H^H^H^Hthere".
-
No fortune should run beyond 72 characters on a single line without good
justification (er, no pun intended). And no right margin justification,
either. Sorry. For BSD people, there is a program called "fmt" which can
projects / fortune-mod / blobdiff