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Quote file format

GUIquotes uses the UNIX fortune file format which is a text file in which each fortune is followed by a percent symbol (%) on a line by itself. The following is an example of the format.

    Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine
    percent perspiration.
    	-- Thomas Alva Edison
    %
    Never laugh at live dragons.
    	-- Bilbo Baggins [J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Hobbit"]
    %
    Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice
    to deceive.
    	-- Shakespeare
    %
    You can't have everything.  Where would you put it?
    	-- Steven Wright
    %
              

To see all of the quotes the file should start with the first quote and the file should end with a % line. GUIquotes does not support using %% nor spaces after the %. GUIquotes does not use the fortune binary .dat file.