Add explanation of how to make cookie.el

compatible with strfile(1) to comment.

diff --git a/lisp/play/cookie1.el b/lisp/play/cookie1.el
index 9e8412d17f140dcf8e39cf31de2a762a9eb15234..ef879eae675fe5098e4719f65605f50dacdd466b 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/play/cookie1.el
+++ b/lisp/play/cookie1.el
@@ -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