Re: fortune (was: [Evolution] Ximian & Wanda)

[Chris Blake <cblake pbpc co za>]

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 17:13, Mark R. Bowyer wrote:
> > This is my first script on any Linux box so mayhap I`m missing some
> > things....
>
> Ah yes - this isn't the script I actually use, and you just reminded me
> why *my* script includes the line:
>
>       echo -n "</pre>"
>
> before the first echo up there (i.e. as the second line).  Your best bet
> would be to change line 3 from:
>
>          echo "-- "
>
> to:
>
>       echo "</pre>-- "
>
> Which I've just tested and works well here.
>
> For reasons that are entirely beyond me, even if you're writing email in
> Evo as plain text, and not HTML, it still reads the text generated by
> the script as HTML and formats it as such.  The above additional </pre>
> tells it that the text isn't pre-formatted any more, and so counter-
> intuitively it leaves in the line breaks - don't ask me, but just <pre>
> didn't help.  This has other side effects to the white-space in your
> text, but that shouldn't effect the .sig you have there.  The whole
> thing is a bit of a mess, and I can't wait to see what they've done with
> this in 1.4 ;O)
>
> Good luck,

As you can see, it is working properly now....thanks for the time and
effort in solving this.

Much appreciated
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Chris Blake
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