COOKIE or FORTUNE homepage.

This page (and its copy on FortuneCity) has been visited

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Cookie is a BSD-games Fortune clone.
Fortune is a program that shows a short text (quote or joke) each time it is run. Such a text is called a "fortune".

Currently I also distribute 21 MB Fortunes archive, a sed based shell-script to convert to true Fortune sources is included in the source archive

The new 32-bits version of Cookie isn't ready yet, but development quite fast. Most main system run, only the commandline interface and handling must be added, and some configurability must also be implemented. I sometimes write in the page below if Cook32 was available. If it isn't, I'm sorry, but I'm not good in keeping pages up to date :-) Cook32 also support W95's longfilenames and better configurationfile support.

The main differences between Cookie and Fortune program are:

Cookie operates on compressed (binary) archives with fortunes. The compression is now either none (archive only), zlib or lzh/lzw.
Cookie has a category system. Fortune can retrieve fortunes from several source files which can be used as a workaround to use categories. Cookie has a complex category and grade system which also exists inside sourcefiles, and which can be tested (selective run of fortune) or manipulated in a different way
Cookie is written in Free Pascal (FPC), which currently operates on Go32v2(dos-extender), Linux, OS/2 and Win32 (console app, but graphical frontends are possible). Other platforms are under construction
I never saw the original Fortune program outside the Linux/Unix domain). I never tried to compile them using DJGPP myself though
Cookie comes with some small apps that manipulate sourcefiles and archives, e.g. a sorter which also kills (the most obvious) duplicates, and splitting archives up according to size and/or category. I hope to extend these features in the next versions(with CGI and telnet support I hope).

The main differences between Cookie and Fortune fortune sources are:

Cookie implements the categories in the sources. After the "%" separator an exclamation with the category code follows (like e.g. %!AA 123)
Fortunes starting with a hashmark "#" are considered a comment, and never shown.
Fortune sourcefiles can have both the Unix (lf) and Dos (crlf) end of line.
Cookie has no support yet for the low-ascii (avatar terminal codes?) in original Fortune files. Can somebody explain to me what these do?
No support yet for ROT13 (offensive) fortunes. A converter (ROT13'er) is however included in the util binary.

Problem (1) above (the categories) are tackled by a sed based shellscript included in the source archive. However if you do this you loose all category information. It is generally wiser to download the cookie program, split the archive according to size or category, and run the shellscript on the splitted sources.

Download hereFortune sources for cookie v1.05