LDS Scriptures Fortune Modules

Mormon Documentation Project

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Fortune is a program that reads random quotes from data text files.

The fortune-mod-mormon project aims to provide free (public domain) fortune modules for the Scriptures.

The latest release includes seventeen individual modules. Download now!

The Holy Bible (King James Version)

• bible - The Holy Bible (Old and New Testaments)
• ot - The Old Testament
• nt - The New Testament
• gospels - The Four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John)
• acts - The Book of Acts
• eccl - Ecclesiastes
• epistles - The Epistles (Romans - Jude)
• isaiah - The Book of Isaiah
• proverbs - The Book of Proverbs
• psalms - The Book of Psalms

The Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price

• mormon - The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
• aof - The Articles of Faith
• dc - Doctrine and Covenants
• pgp - The Pearl of Great Price
• scriptures - All the Scriptures included

See also: fortune-mod-bible, another KJV Bible module.

Download

2005-11-06 - v1.0.0

Download from Sourceforge.

Gentoo ebuild coming soon!

md5sum: 6fc6a4eeff2b64c2b1256d00bf1c48b8 fortune-mod-mormon-1.0.0.tar.bz2

Project Documentation

• ChangeLog
• README
• Contact: sdibb at users dot ldsoss dot org

Installation

Gentoo, SuSE

Install modules to /usr/share/fortune

Mandriva

Install modules to /usr/share/games/fortune

Default

On most Linux / BSD systems, you can use the Makefile provided. Just run make install as root to install the modules in /usr/share/fortune, or you can just copy them manually.

If you are using Windows, you can install fortune with Cygwin.

Once installed, run fortune <module> to see a random scripture. :)

$ fortune mormon

And there was one day in every week that was set apart that they should
gather themselves together to teach the people, and to worship the Lord
their God, and also, as often as it was in their power, to assemble
themselves together.
-- Mosiah 18:25