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Contents

1. Installation and usage
2. Availability
3. Acknowledgments
4. Contacting the author

1. Installation and usage

To install these fortunes, copy the .dat file to your fortunes directory. (possibly /usr/games/lib/fortunes)

To use it, simply type:

fortune hitchhiker

2. Availability

You can always get the latest version of this fortune file from my website: http://www.splitbrain.org/

3. Acknowledgments

This fortunefile was based off two lists found at http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~nhughes/dna/faqs/quotedir.html and http://tatooine.fortunecity.com/vonnegut/29/hitch/parhaat.html

The entire text is copyrighted by the rightful owners.

Spelling and formatting fixed by grok@resist.ca

4. Contacting the author

Where author means author of the fortune file as is, and not Douglas Adams, of course. Suggestions, questions, comments, patches:

Andreas Gohr <andi@splitbrain.org>