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Written by Fishd on 2024-09-18 at 20:57

Anyone still using #fortune-mod ?

I've got it installed on #macOS and #Linux #Debian ... and then created a custom fortunes file for it. I've created the accompanying .dat file and copied them to the appropriate folder.

The file works perfectly under Linux, but not under macOS, I just get the entire file printed out but the characters are gibberish (interestingly, the % signs used to separate comments are still in place).

Is the strfile binary output specific to an architecure? I created it on linux and copied it over to macOS... could that be the issue?

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Written by Fishd on 2024-09-19 at 08:53

So yeah, turns out it's an issue with the strfile process.

I swallowed my pride, installed homebrew on another Mac to install the fortune utility (and therefore get the strfile binary, which was missing from my original macOS package for some reason) and then running the command on macOS, this now works.

Odd.

[#]fortune #macOS #Linux #Debian

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