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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 14:35:09 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of fortune-mod 9708
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Hello.

I've ported fortune-mod 9708 to DJGPP. fortune-mod is a modified version
of the NetBSD fortune cookie program.

The port can be downloaded from here:

    http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/mysoft.html#fortune-mod

Below is the readme.djg file for fortune-mod.

Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]

Readme for DJGPP port of fortune-mod 9708
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Installing the Binary Package
-----------------------------

Unzip the distribution preserving the directory structure - use PKUNZIP's
-d
option; use an equivalent option with other unzippers. Unzip into the top
DJGPP installation directory, e.g. c:\djgpp.

fortune-mod should now be ready for use. A man page for fortune-mod
is provided - use:

    man fortune

to view it. You will need to have installed the man program from the
v2apps/
directory of the DJGPP archive for this to work.

To run fortune, use a command like:

   c:\djgpp\games\fortune (command.com as shell)
   c:/djgpp/games/fortune (bash as shell)

Installing the Source Package
-----------------------------

You should only install the source package if you want to rebuild
fortune-mod from 
the sources. To build the port, I used the following packages:

. DJGPP 2.03
. GNU bash 2.04
. GNU gcc 2.95.3
. GNU binutils 2.11.2
. GNU make 3.79
. GNU fileutils 4.0
. GNU shellutils 1.12

To build fortune-mod, change into the top-level source directory
(e.g. 'c:/djgpp/contrib/frt9708') and run 'make'. To install the program
and its support files, run 'make install'.

A number of patches were needed to build fortune-mod with DJGPP:

* fortune-mod originally kept all the fortune files open. DOS/Windows
  only allow a few files to be open simultaneously and fortune-mod
  was exceeding this limit. So, it now closes the fortune files and
  reopens them when it needs them.

* All files are opened in binary mode.

The source distribution comes with the source patch applied.

Finally
-------

If you have any comments or problems with this port, please feel free to
e-mail me. I hope this port is useful.

Thanks, bye,

Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> 2001-12-22