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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Joke Decryption (again!)
Message-ID: <687@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Aug-83 14:26:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: watcgl.687
Posted: Sun Aug 14 14:26:57 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 15-Aug-83 00:18:53 EDT
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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The most recent version of B news (2.10) has a rotated-text decrypter
built in.  Just type "D" instead of carriage return, and it calls a
routine which tries to figure out the appropriate rotation on a line-by-line
basis, rendering even things containing a mix of rotated and unrotated
lines readable.  Unfortunately, it guesses wrong sometimes, so you can force
uniform rotation by 13 by doing "D 13" instead.  This is documented in
readnews(1).  Since it is a part of news, it understands headers and
doesn't bother showing you all of the header lines you didn't really
want to look at.  So, at least for B news users, throw away all your
decryption shell files or C programs and use this instead.

Dave Martindale