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author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2015-09-25 17:37:24 +0000 |
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committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2015-09-25 17:37:24 +0000 |
commit | 846b0e3945d3eb88ef389f1db127f6401bd26087 (patch) | |
tree | 208e5b69111beeaabd9b2e6bbfae1d2db46f3f62 /games/fortune | |
parent | 10d8e06b736f0bdffd50185a9986fa316cad5a4a (diff) |
use | rather than / for alternatives and some macro fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'games/fortune')
-rw-r--r-- | games/fortune/fortune/fortune.6 | 31 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/games/fortune/fortune/fortune.6 b/games/fortune/fortune/fortune.6 index 8da137ebe5c..57e65bed512 100644 --- a/games/fortune/fortune/fortune.6 +++ b/games/fortune/fortune/fortune.6 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: fortune.6,v 1.13 2015/02/06 09:30:04 tedu Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: fortune.6,v 1.14 2015/09/25 17:37:23 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)fortune.6 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: February 6 2015 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 25 2015 $ .Dt FORTUNE 6 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ .Oo .Op Ar N Ns % .Sm off -.Ar file No / Ar directory No / Ar all +.Ar file | Ar directory | Cm all .Sm on .Oc .Sh DESCRIPTION @@ -108,9 +108,12 @@ to guarantee that the message can be read before the screen is cleared. .El .Pp The user may specify alternate sayings. -You can specify a specific file, a directory which contains one or -more files, or the special word -.Em all , +You can specify a specific +.Ar file , +a +.Ar directory +which contains one or more files, or the special word +.Cm all , which says to use all the standard databases. Any of these may be preceded by a percentage, which is a number .Ar N @@ -119,26 +122,28 @@ between 0 and 100 inclusive, followed by a character. If it is, there will be an .Ar N -percent probability that an adage will be picked from that file -or directory. +percent probability that an adage will be picked from that +.Ar file +or +.Ar directory . If the percentages do not sum to 100, and there are specifications without percentages, the remaining percent will apply to those files and/or directories, in which case the probability of selecting from one of them will be based on their relative sizes. .Pp As an example, given two databases -.Em funny +.Pa funny and -.Em not-funny , +.Pa not-funny , with -.Em funny +.Pa funny twice as big, saying .Bd -literal -offset indent $ fortune funny not-funny .Ed .Pp will get you fortunes out of -.Em funny +.Pa funny two-thirds of the time. The command .Bd -literal -offset indent @@ -146,7 +151,7 @@ $ fortune 90% funny 10% not-funny .Ed .Pp will pick out 90% of its fortunes from -.Em funny +.Pa funny (the .Dq 10% is unnecessary, since 10% is all that's left). |