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From: lindley@ut-ngp.UUCP (John L. Templer)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Rotating jokes (comments)
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Date: Sat, 23-Feb-85 22:18:34 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 23 22:18:34 1985
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In most news programs there is a built in command to decrypt rotated
text.  In readnews and vnews the command is 'D', we don't have rn, so I
don't know what the command on that program is.  But, this does not
save a decrypted copy of the article.  However, it is possible to
improve on Ron's script by replacing the sed command:
> sed\
> -e '/^$/,$y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/NOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLM/'\
> -e '/^$/,$y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklm/'\
with a tr command:
tr 'A-Za-z' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m'
If you use csh, then you can even put the line:
alias rot tr 'A-Za-z' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m'
in your .cshrc file.  That way you can use the ! command from vi or ex
to rotate text in articles you post.
-- 

                                           John L. Templer
                                     University of Texas at Austin

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