What's the deal with the QUOTES file in the C:\Winnt\system32\drivers\etc directory. It looks all ready to be parsed by a script. What in windows is using it?

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"My spelling is Wobbly.  It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters

 get in the wrong places." A. A. Milne (1882-1958)

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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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"In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular." George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."

 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares

 that it is his duty." George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to

 consume wealth without producing it." George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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"We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!"

 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether

 you are happy or not.  The cure for it is occupation."

 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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"Here's the rule for bargains: "Do other men, for they would do you."

 That's the true business precept." Charles Dickens (1812-70)

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"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man!

 Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!"

 Charles Dickens (1812-70)

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"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted

 to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."

 Charles Dickens (1812-70)

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"It was as true as taxes is.  And nothing's truer than them."

 Charles Dickens (1812-70)

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maybe console? There's something which can be set up in Linux that displays a quote when you open a console....maybe this is similar

It's for the Random Quote service. Available as an extra for XP (I think you can install it through add/remove components). MS wants to do classic UNIX geek stuff all of a sudden? LOL

Put some offensive quotes in it and run the service just for kicks.

L-ViS

Thought it was part of the Office XP system.. I know Office on Windows 98 you could call quotes up and put them at the bottm / top of a page...

What is the point in it?? none.. MS spend too much time doing this sort of crap and not enough fixing problems..!!!!!

I think about everyone will agree with you there

Port 17, "Quote of the Day" protocol; when a socket is initalised and connected to this port on a server machine running "Simple TCP/IP Services", it will respond with one of those quotes.

This is mainly historic, Alot of operating systems do this.
Other common ports include Echo (Port 7), Chargen (Character Generator - Port 19), daytime, discard, and many more... Check http://www.xmas-i-am.com/video/Comon%20Port%20numbers.txt for more information (1.2MB File - warning to modem users )

Microsoft havent wasted time programming this, its included as a bolt on for most OS's, for simple diags and historic reasons. They can be disabled and uninstalled (Simple TCP/IP Services in Networking Serviecs in Win2k, I believe).

Good fun to play with, you can knock your own Simple Port server together like this in under 20 seconds