fortune-murphy v0.0.1 - 2000-12-03 2000 (C) by Guillaume.Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse@univ-reunion.fr> Licensed under the GNU GPL - see COPYING for details http://www.univ-reunion.fr/~grousse/linux/murphy_fortune.html -- -- -- This is a collection of more than 1250 Murphy's (& Al) laws, ignominously stolen from the excellent Ultimate Collection of Murphy's Laws by Andreas Götz (http://www.cpuidle.de/murphy.shtml), at format used by the good old fortune command. CONTENT ------- Here are the list of topics covered by Murphy's infinite wisdom, with the name of corresponding files : Computers, Research and Technology Murphy's Laws of Computer Programmingi (computer_programmation) Murphy's Laws of Computation (computation) Murphy's Computer Laws (computer) Murphy's Laws of PC's (pc) Murphy's Hardware Laws (hardware) Murphy's Laws on Technology (technology) Murphy's Laws of BBS'ing (bbsing) Murphy's Laws of Broadcast Engineering (broadcast_engineering) Murphy's Law for Researchers (researchers) Ralf's Laws of Observational Astronomy (observational_astronomy) Schools and Education Murphy's Laws Concerning Education (education) Murphy's Laws of Teaching (teaching) Murphy's Laws for School Administrators (school_administrators) Sex and Dating Murphy's Laws of Dating (dating) Murphy's Laws on Sex (sex) Mother Murphy's Laws (mother) Murphy's Love Laws (love) Food Murphy's Food Laws (food) Murphy's Laws of Eating (eating) Murphy's Laws on Vending Machines (vending_machines) Miscellaneous General Shefields Corollaries (shefields_corollaries) Murphy's In Laws (in) Murphy's Laws of Camping (camping) Murphy's Military Laws (military) New Military Laws (military_new) Murphy's Laws of Sewing (sewing) Sad Thruth's of Life (life_truths) Murphy's Laws for Frequent Flyers (frequent-flyers) Murphy's Driving Laws (driving) Murphy's Horse Laws (horse) Murphy's Laws of Martial Arts (martial_arts) Murphy's Laws on Work (work) Murphy's Laws on Bush Fire Brigades (bush_fire_brigade) Murphy's Laws of Corn Growing (corn_growing) Murphy's Laws of Locksmithing (locksmithing) H.L. Mencken on Murphy (hencken) Murphy's Laws of Antiques (antiques) Related Topics Anti- Murphy's Laws (anti-murphy) Why Why Why (why) INSTALLATION ------------ As fortune programm has no configuration file (everything seems to be hardcoded), best way to use this alternate package is to copy all wanted citations files into a directory (/usr/local/share/games/fortune, for example), and to alias fortune command to use it: alias fortune='fortune /usr/local/share/games/fortune' The basic makefile just do that. Just change DESTDIR value if you want to use another directory. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ---------------- Andreas Götz, for allowing me to use his work Sergio, for the awk stuff used to build the files