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- By far the most useful part of any UNIX™ system is the "fortune"
- program. :-) It kept me happy for many years. When I ceased to have
- daily dealings with such systems, I missed fortune. I used an init on
- the MAC that would put up a cookie at boot time, but it broke with
- system 7. I had a collection of cookies I'd collected over the years, so
- I wrote my own. This program is just an application, it patches nothing.
- Put it and its CookieJar file, together, wherever is convenient and put
- an alias to CookieApp in your Startup Items folder, Apple Menu Items
- folder, on you desktop, or any where you want it available.
-
- I believe CookieApp is System 7 dependent, at least I wasn't careful to
- avoid such dependancies, who knows what magic the library glue may work.
- If you want to try it on an older system, don't blame me for any
- consequences.
-
-
- There is a switch in the preferences to turn on offensive fortune cookies,
- of course, what is offensive is a personal matter. If they were offensive to
- everyone, they probably wouldn't be here. I started this collection with a
- set of cookies that someone else had categorized and I haven't attempted to
- change any, only to put new additions into the proper partition.
-
- There are no special categories, i.e. Offensive to lawyers, Offensive to
- women, Offensive to blonds... No, not even offensive to hackers...
-
- Actually, there is a third category, but it's a mystery. You have to figure
- out what it's _about_ there is no switch for it in the preferences!
-
-
- This program is FREE. You can give it to your friends who might want it;
- you can give it to your enemies who might deserve it; you can upload it to
- a BBS or online service for the upload credit; basically you can do what you
- want with it. I would ask that you keep this small notes file with it so that
- everyone knows this.
-
- Comments or suggestions can be sent to:
- Tom Gerardy on the MacManiacs BBS
- tomg@whacked.com via internet
-
- 1144 Adams Ave. via US mail
- Louisville, CO 80027
-
- A note on TransSkel: In the about box I thanked Paul DuBois for giving this
- to the world, but nobody should think he (or it) is responsible for any
- strange behavior of CookieApp. It isn't even a vanilla version of TransSkel,
- it is one I hacked myself to be C++ friendlier starting with version 2.0
- of his original. If anyone is interested in this, let me know.
-
- Thanks to Erich and Dan Oetting for many suggestions, testing, and numerous
- contributions of potential cookies.
-