Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site bgsuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!osu-eddie!bgsuvax!schultz From: schultz@bgsuvax.UUCP (Steven Schultz) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: RE: un-ROTting and a third lie Message-ID: <467@bgsuvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-May-85 18:07:46 EDT Article-I.D.: bgsuvax.467 Posted: Tue May 28 18:07:46 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 31-May-85 02:15:35 EDT Organization: Bowling Green State University, OH Lines: 32 If you want to save a rotated joke in your directory, just unrotate the article, and pipe the output to a file. For instance, we use a shift-D to invoke the rotation program while in readnews. When I come across a joke that is rotated and I want to save it and un-rot it at the same time I type in the following command at the prompt in readnews : (38 lines) More? [ynq] I now type in : D > [jokefilename] this creates a file containing an un-rotted file in my directory, and I never have to exit readnews. I can continue right where I left off in my reading. And, yes, a joke . . . or rather an addendum to the three lies (this is my personal pet peeve #3 - Your money always cheerfully refunded! Steven Schultz "You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant, excepting Alice" -Arlo Guthrie "Alice's Restaurant Masacree" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PATH: uw-beaver!ihnp4!cbosgd!osu-eddie!bgsuvax!schultz -------------------------------------------------------------------------------