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From: lionel@garfield.UUCP (Lionel H. Moser)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.jokes
Subject: Re: Saving rotated jokes unrotated
Message-ID: <2956@garfield.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-May-85 14:20:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: garfield.2956
Posted: Fri May 24 14:20:30 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 25-May-85 00:34:17 EDT
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Organization: Memorial U. of Nfld. C.S. Dept., St. John's
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> 
> 	The one way I have found thus far to get at joke rotation is to
> invoke `postnews' (on our 4.2 Bsd site) and go thru the motions of posting
> text to net.jokes. YECCHH!!!
> 
> I'm assuming you know how to use postnews. The steps are:

Yes there is any easier way.
I just back up to the header for the joke, and issue the
command: D > filename
  This Decodes the joke, and writes the output to the named file.
Lionel H. Moser
Department of Computer Science
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland
Canada      A1C 5S7

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