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From: jeff@alberta.UUCP (C. J. Sampson)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Getting fortunes out of fortune cookies.
Message-ID: <408@alberta.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 12:39:54 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 10 12:39:54 1985
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> I have never gotten a fortune out of a cookie.  Do they show up
> randomly, or do I have to do something special like break them open?

Let me point out that the only way a fortune will appear when you eat
a fortune cookie is if the file of fortunes (`rumors') is in the hack
directory.  If that file does not exist, hack will simply do nothing.
It doesn't even give an error message.
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