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Re: Not so IGLU related question..



Hi, David!

On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 08:55:03PM +0300, you wrote the following:

> > Oh dear... here it is:
> > mkfifo .signature
> > (while true; do fortune > .signature; done) &
> 
> OK, it works great, but, 1. it outputs 2 signatures. (Thats easy to
> fix...) 2. How do I remove the annoying "4 lines" message?

2 signatures? "4 lines" message?! Here's what it does on my system:

alexsh@alexsh:~> mkfifo zz
alexsh@alexsh:~> (while true; do fortune > zz; done) &
[1] 1212
alexsh@alexsh:~> cat zz
Good day to let down old friends who need help.
alexsh@alexsh:~> cat zz
standards, n.:
	The principles we use to reject other people's code.
alexsh@alexsh:~> cat zz
You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.
alexsh@alexsh:~> cat zz
I once decorated my apartment entirely in ten foot salad forks!!
alexsh@alexsh:~> cat zz
Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it
appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and low down,
and its salient virtuosi a gang of umitigated scoundrels?  Then let us
not forget its high capacity to soothe and tickel the midriff, its
incomparable services as a maker of entertainment.
		-- H.L. Mencken, "A Carnival of Buncombe"
alexsh@alexsh:~> 


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