Fortune.pm version 0.2 26 February 2000 Greg Ward Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Gregory P. Ward. All rights reserved. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. This module provides an interface to fortune cookie databases, as implemented by the fortune-mod-9708 distribution (which is widely used in the Linux world, and available with at least the Red Hat and Debian distributions). Currently, it is a read-only interface. If I ever need to a read-write interface, I suppose I'll write one; if *you* need one, feel free to write it and send me a patch! AVAILABILITY ------------ The latest version of this module will be available at: http://starship.python.net/~gward/perl/ If you need a full-blown fortune package, try fortune-mod, which should be available at: http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~dbugger/hacks/hacks.html CREDITS ------- Thanks to Bill Ward for adding the code that allows reading a fortune file that doesn't have a header (index) file. $Id: README,v 1.2 2000/02/27 02:28:13 greg Exp $