LinuxBender wrote: post #2

I used cowsay together with fortune-mod extensively! Cowsay was also useful for getting someones attention in a "wall" message on systems. One-line, they miss. One cow, they never miss!

And nobody misses an announcement if it's made with -f dragon

Re: Cowsay: 19 years ago

Post by LinuxBender » Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 1:42 PM UTC

Piskvorrr wrote: post #3

LinuxBender wrote: post #2

I used cowsay together with fortune-mod extensively! Cowsay was also useful for getting someones attention in a "wall" message on systems. One-line, they miss. One cow, they never miss!

And nobody misses an announcement if it's made with -f dragon

Indeed! Figlet is also useful in this case.

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