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From: pwk@ccice2.UUCP (THE PALE AVENGER)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: saving ROT13
Message-ID: <695@ccice2.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 18:49:38 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 15 18:49:38 1985
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In article <473@sdchema.sdchema.UUCP> tcm@sdchema.UUCP (Tom C. Macken) writes:

>> >D > filename
>> 
>> Doesn't work. Oh, I get it.  You must be using readnews!
>> I didn't think anyone still used THAT old program anymore.
>> 
>Its the only program i know of.  If there is a new program or
>another please inform me.
>.
>:

Hi Tom. Say, does this look familiar? :-)

>To: rochester!ritcv!ccice5!ccice2!pwk
>Subject: Re: saving ROT13
>References: <507@puff.UUCP> <208@ucdavis.UUCP>, <689@ccice2.UUCP>
>Status: RO
>
>where am i at help
>:

You must have hit 'r' instead of 'f'. 'r' sends mail to the poster 'f'
submits a followup article. In answer to your question, yes there are
other programs to read news. The ones I know of are vnews, and rn.
If your machine has either one it should also have the man-page
for it so you can check for them by trying;
% man vnews (or rn)
I wouldn't suggest using them without reading the documentation for them
so if man does nothing forget it. Elsewhere you ask;

>How do you read ROT13 or at least give me ahint
>'
>:

If you use readnews you can read rot13 jokes just by hitting 'D' after
you see the header.  This invokes a program called ceaser which will
unrot the joke.  The problem with ceaser is it tries to rotate by
whatever number it thinks makes sense for each line and will screw up
some lines.  You can avoid this by telling it what number to rotate by
i.e. 'D 13'.  This is useful if someone submits a joke that is rot6
or something.  If you want to save a rotated joke then 'D > name'
or 'D 13 > name' will work if you use readnews. try 
% man readnews
for more information but it won't tell you how to post rot13 jokes.

To post rot13 jokes I think the best way is to edit a file with the
joke in it.  Rot13 the file to another file. then use Pnews and
give it the name of the rotated file when it asks you if there
is a prepared file to include.  To rot13 one file to another use
% ROT13 < infile > outfile
where ROT13 is a file that contains
tr "[a-m][n-z][A-M][N-Z]" "[n-z][a-m][N-Z][A-M]"
After you creat your ROT13 file do this
% chmod +x ROT13
to make it executable.  Hope this helps.
-- 
Of course I could be wrong.

siesmo!rochester!ccice5!ccice2!pwk (Paul W. Karber)