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From: Harry Mason <spam@no.spam>
Subject: Re: [sh] if wrapping won't kill it
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Faux_Pseudo wrote:
>  _.--- BoD spoke in alt.ascii-art --------._ 
>> Anyway I've put that in /etc/motd ...
>> Until I find a better one :)
> 
> I only have two login shells on my system so I didn't see motd very
> often.  So instead I when I found out about rt[0] I went and added
> a variation of this to my ~/.xinitrc:
> 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/root-tail -g 165x8+001+595 -font fixed \
> /home/faux/.fortune,cyan,'FORTUNE' -reload 20 &
> 
> And this in my crontab:
> */5 * * * * /usr/games/fortune -a > /home/faux/.fortune
> 
> This way I can always see new fortunes.

I have an alternative: a fortune in your titlebar. I wrote this because
all "xterm"s look the same in my icon manager, and it's a useful way to
tell them apart as well as to read fortunes.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
open(F, "fortune -s -n100 |");
undef $/;
$_ = <F>;
s/[\t\n]/ /g;
s/\r//g;
close(F);
@a = ("xterm", "-title", "xterm: $_", "-n", "xterm: $_");
push(@a, @ARGV);
exec(@a);

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|  Harry Mason  | .------------. |    .___,    |"Whatever you do will be |
| University of | |  hjm200 @  | | ___('v')___ | insignificant. However, |
|  Southampton  | | zepler.net | | `"-\._./-"' | it is vitally important |
|    England    | '------------' | hjm ^ ^     | that you do it." Gandhi |