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+xcowsay (display a cute cow and speech bubble)
+
xcowsay displays a cute cow and message on your desktop. Inspired by
the original cowsay.
@@ -9,11 +11,13 @@ xcowsay includes all these amazing features:
* Can draw thought and speech bubbles.
* Daemon mode! Send your cow messages over DBus!
* Three different sized cows provided.
- * fortune(6) wrapper program xcowfortune: cow will deliver pearls of wisdom!
+ * fortune(6) wrapper xcowfortune: cow will deliver pearls of wisdom!
* Replace the naffness that is xmessage(1).
* Should work with any window manager.
* Supports UTF-8 characters properly.
* Use alternative non-cow images if you like.
-Note: Please don't ask for this to be updated for version 1.5. I know
-it exists. See README_1.5.txt for an explanation.
+If you're using older hardware and have problems with this, you may
+have better results with xcowsay-1.4. To do this, get the old source:
+https://github.com/nickg/xcowsay/releases/download/v1.4/xcowsay-1.4.tar.gz
+and run the script with VERSION=1.4 in the environment.