# HG changeset patch
# User Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
# Date 964728432 0
# Node ID 42bf9adb59a3bc3186b7d6348bc6fe87d8c3a82a
# Parent  12162d90d9e4ba3e5ad09902f2f2a7777e315cfb
Add explanation of how to make cookie.el
compatible with strfile(1) to comment.

diff -r 12162d90d9e4 -r 42bf9adb59a3 lisp/play/cookie1.el
--- a/lisp/play/cookie1.el	Thu Jul 27 20:06:37 2000 +0000
+++ b/lisp/play/cookie1.el	Thu Jul 27 20:07:12 2000 +0000
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@
 ;; formats could be supported by adding alternates to the regexp
 ;; `cookie-delimiter'.
 ;;
+;; strfile(1) is the program used to compile the files for fortune(6).
+;; In order to achieve total compatibility with strfile(1), cookie files
+;; should start with two consecutive delimiters (and no comment).
+;;
 ;; This code derives from Steve Strassman's 1987 spook.el package, but
 ;; has been generalized so that it supports multiple simultaneous
 ;; cookie databases and fortune files.  It is intended to be called