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Fortune programs have been around on Unix systems for quite a while. If you type fortune, you will get a random “nugget of information” that is intended to brighten your day. This involves you creating your own Fortune program that is implemented using Sockets.
There is a file, fortune.txt, contained as part of this that contains quotes that will be used as “source” quotes for the fortune server.
Each quote is presented in a section started with the “%” Symbol. The quote itself may or may not be surrounded by quotation marks and may run over several lines. In addition if an author is provided for the quote – this is specified on a separate line that starts with a hyphen “-“and then details the author information.
There is a file, fortune.txt, contained as part of this that contains quotes that will be used as “source” quotes for the fortune server.
Each quote is presented in a section started with the “%” Symbol. The quote itself may or may not be surrounded by quotation marks and may run over several lines. In addition if an author is provided for the quote – this is specified on a separate line that starts with a hyphen “-“and then details the author information.