This is a recent conversion of an old IBM Mainframe application
to the fortune datafile format.
The "laws" were extracted from a S/370 Assembler program on a SHARE tape.
The comments in the program:
*---------------------------------------------------------------------*
* 'MURPHY' THE OLE PHILOSOPHER 18 AUGUST 1988 *
* *
* MURPHY WAS FOUND ON A JES2 TAPE OF ALL PLACES WITH ABOUT *
* 500 OR SO SAYINGS. GOT ANOTHER 250 FROM AN UNKNOWN SOURCE *
* AND HAVE ADDED ABOUT 100 OR SO MYSELF. *
* *
[list of changes omitted]
* *
* JIM MARSHALL, CAPT, USAF *
* (301) 688-6829 *
* *
*---------------------------------------------------------------------*
Fortunes that a sufficiently twisted mind could perceive as offensive
have been moved to murphy-o. Thanks to the submitter for reviewing
these fortunes.
The copyright issues were considered before approval.
PR: misc/8519
Submitted by: Cy Schubert (misc/8519)
Approved by: The Fortune Teller
Also, fix a couple whitespace formatting errors and typos.
Note that the Klingon joke has a 12-point version in the
-chat list, mesg-id: <19990717120618.C269@marder-1> (thanks to
DES and to submitter doug@gorean). Also, note that the following
people need to learn to double-space after a period: <DougB@gorean.org>,
<des@flood.ping.uio.no>, <mellon@pobox.com>, <jeroen@vangelderen.org>,
and <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>.
some dups, fix some typos and formatting.
Submitted-by (in no particular order):
Cy Schubert <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> (bin/12477)
David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> (misc/16647)
Zachary K Drew <drew0054@tc.umn.edu> (misc/16848)
Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> (misc/15809)
Bruce A. Mah <bmah@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov> (bin/17085)
And myself.
Approved by: The Fortune Teller
small typo fixes. Most have to do with periods and ellipses, but there
are some spelling, capitalization, and miscellaneous fixes. No meanings
have been changed.
Jordan OK'ed it, i think it's a nice one for those who need it. I
once mentioned in Usenet that i've hacked morse(6) so it can control
an external device like a tone generator or even a ham radio
transceiver, so you could actually use that `game' for really
transmitting morse code through the air. A couple of people then
bugged be to send them my hack (which it was by that time).
So i've now finally found some hours to clean it up (like freaking out
with the transmitter no longer keyed in case someone ^c's out of the
program...), and to write the man page addition.
While i was at it, i also cleaned up some minor nits in Lyndon's
/dev/speaker code, mainly #ifdef related stuff like handling getopt()
if SPEAKER is not defined etc.
enjoy & 73
Approved by: jkh, the restless...
Ruslan Ermilov
Kris Kennaway
Greg Lehey
Alexander Langer
David Malone
Garrett Wollman
Bill Fumerola
Poul-Henning Kamp
Daniel C. Sobral
Andrey A. Chernov
Jonathan Lemon
Mike Pritchard
John-Mark Gurney
Bruce Evans
Ollivier Robert
Tim Vanderhoek
Jim Mock
Brian Feldman
Peter Wemm
Matthew Hunt
Joerg Wunsch