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"N. Raghavendra" <raghu@mri.ernet.in> writes:

> At 2005-12-01T13:32:02-06:00, Tim McNamara wrote:
>
>> Thank you, I will look into that further.  I didn't realize that
>> Emacs had its own fortune program and had errantly thought that the
>> standard Unix fortune was being called.
>
> `fortune.el' does use the standard Unix command fortune(6) to do the
> actual work.  However, the cookie files used by fortune(6) need not
> be the standard ones.  They could, for instance, be the Dhammapada
> verses you want to use.
>
> I forgot to point out that before you can do what I had suggested,
> you need to create the data files for your fortunes, using
> strfile(8):
>
>   cd ~/kaya; for i in [0-9]*; do strfile $i; done

Thank you for that!