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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.

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