Info on making fortune work

README.md

@@ -11,17 +11,26 @@ After that, it should work fine.
 
 There are two modes other than standard invocation, `--machine` which drops any
 ANSI colors from the output, and `--fortune` which converts the wisdom to an
-assumed imitation of the fortune format (untested, may need header/footer
-massaging or character set tweaking).
+assumed imitation of the fortune format. To make the resulting fortune format
+file available to the classic `fortune` program (loses ANSI colors in output)
+you can run `strfile` as follows:
 
-To have it display on login, you could try something like this in your `.profile`:
+```
+taoup --fortune >taoup-fortunes
+strfile taoup-fortunes taoup-fortunes.dat
+fortune taoup-fortunes
+```
+
+To display `taoup` output at login, try something like this in your `.profile`:
 
 ```
 /path/to/taoup |grep -v '^---' | while read line;do echo $RANDOM'|'$line;done |sort|cut -d"|" -f2- | head -n 1 | cowsay -f eyes -n |head -n 2 |tail -n 1
 echo '' | cowsay -f eyes |tail -n 10 |sed 's/^//'
 ```
 
-Note that you need to use the real source here, since the final `sed` contains
-extended ANSI escape sequence characters that do not copy from Github-webland.
-The `while read line...done` stuff is an ugly hack for portable random `sort`.
-If you don't yet have `cowsay`, stop reading right now and get it installed!
+Note that you need to use the real source of `README.md` for the command here, 
+since the final `sed` contains extended ANSI escape sequence characters that 
+do not copy from Github-webland. The `while read line...done` stuff is an 
+ugly hack for portable random `sort`, mostly for OSX users. If you don't yet 
+have `cowsay`, stop reading right now and get it installed!
+