                                                        Bblingen, den 07.08.93

This is a port of a fortune teller from Berkley to OS/2 (Familiy App)
using their STRFILE format.

Basically the fortune teller takes a file in STRFILE format as input and
selects one string (fortunes) for output on the screen.

A raw file is a file with text delimited by '%%' (that's the default).
Offensive text may be seperated form the rest by the '%-' delimiter.

---------- cut here ----------
Zounds!  I was never so bethumped with words
since I first called my brother's father dad.
                -- William Shakespeare, "King John"
%%
Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labor:
        People are always available for work in the past tense.
%-
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for
the first time.
                -- Alfred E. Wiggam
%%
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never
learned to walk.
                -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
---------- cut here ----------

Such a file may be transformed to a STRFILE using the program 'strfile.exe'.
Type 'strfile -?' to see options.

Fortunes may be displayed by the command

        fortunes [drive:path]fortunefile.dat

with the default fortune file '\fortunes\fortunes.dat'.
Type 'fortunes -?' to see options.

A STRFILE may be transformed back to the ASCII file using the program
'unstr.exe'. Type 'unstr -?' to see options.

Enjoy the fortunes

Eduard Kappel

Email:  kappel@odysseus.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de

Mail:   Eduard Kappel
        Taunusstr. 33
        71032 Bblingen
        Germany

PS: The Deskpic Screen Saver module fortunes.dss available form

       ftp-os2.cdrom.com  os2/all/graphics/ekdss.zip

    use a STRFILE to display fortunes.
