At Last:- Here it is.. what we've all been waiting for credit2fortune.pl

Michael De La Rue (mikedlr@it.com.pl)
Wed, 04 Sep 1996 21:31:40 +0200


Well, you all knew it had to happen. You were just too scared to implement it
yourself (famous last words.. someone probably has, but I didn't notice).
This little perl program converts the CREDITS file into a fortune file which
can be used to create that true awe within yourself that using Linux requires.
..

If this goes into widespread usage (i.e. someone releases it beyond the
kernel-list), perhaps those of you who really hate fan mail will want to add
comments to your email entries, or get a fake first email address or
something??.. Anyway tell me if you have an objection and I can program it to
specifically delete your email address or even name.

Michael

<http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~mikedlr/biography.html>
Scottish Climbing Archive: <http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~mikedlr/climbing/>
Linux/Unix clone@ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/linux/sunsite.unc-mirror/docs/

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