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From: sts@ssc-vax.UUCP (Stanley T Shebs)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Joke Decryption (again!)
Message-ID: <392@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Aug-83 20:39:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.392
Posted: Tue Aug  9 20:39:54 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 10-Aug-83 12:07:49 EDT
Organization: Boeing Aerospace, Seattle
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Well, my comment about the C program for decryption really stirred 
things up.  I won't repeat the mail I received from the author (extremely 
coarse and vulgar - and not even encrypted!) or the other less abusive letters.
But I would like to take a poll on whether tr is considered to be a
utility or a shell command.  I always thought of it as a utility
filter handy for all kinds of things, but maybe I was wrong?

Our solution here at Boeing was to install a pair of local commands
'uncrypt <n>' and 'unc'.  Both are filters, with uncrypt taking the
rotation factor as an argument, and unc taking no args, but always
doing a rot13.  Since they are filters, it's very easy to type
's |unc' in response to the article prompt, and not even miss a 
beat (or a joke)!

					A tool-using sentient creature,
					stan the leprechaun hacker
					ssc-vax!sts (soon utah-cs)