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From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Info on ROT Wanted - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 13-Jan-84 04:06:25 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 13 04:06:25 1984
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fortune!rpw3    Jan 12 22:35:00 1984

The easiest way is with 'tr' and 'vi'. Take the following sentence:

	Q: Here is a test sentence to try "rot" out on. Hey!

Now put your cursor on the line (in 'vi') and type "!!tr a-zAZ a-zaB-XA"
(copied from another newsgroup, where it was noted non-Berkeley 'tr' needs
[a-z][A-Z]) and the line will magically disappear and come back as

	R: Ifsf jt b uftu tfoufodf up usz "spu" pvu po. Ifz!

That is a "rot 1" (or maybe -1). I leave it to you to figure out the letters
for rot 13 (you want to decode it with rot -13).

In any case, when you have scripts ('rot+' and 'rot-' ?) you can pipe through,
compose in 'vi' with "!!rot+" (or "!}rot+" for a paragraph, and read it
(from notes) by "saving" it in "|rot-".  (And I may have + and - all wrong.)

Rob Warnock

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