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From: wmartin@brl-smoke.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Decyphering rotated phrases
Message-ID: <1111@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 12:05:32 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 19 12:05:32 1986
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Every now and then, I notice someone including a rotated *phrase* or
line embedded in an otherwise-normal-text article. I have never figured
out how to read these. Could someone post the secret series of commands
in "rn" on how to do this? I can easily unrotate an entire article by
using the "x" or "CTRL-X" commands, but how do you unrotate just a single
line, or part of one line and the next?

The only thing I have been able to do is to try to remember the context,
and then rotate the whole article with CTRL-X or x and look for the
readable phrases. This seems rather awkward and I figured there must be
some beter, elegant way that everybody else knows and I'd like to get in
on the secret. :-)

"Solutions" that involve writing the posting out to a file and then
piping it through various filters or processing it need not be posted;
it isn't worth such time and effort. If this can't be done within the
standard news-reading programs, then the inclusion of rotated text
within an unrotated article should be considered violation of
nettiquette and grounds for flaming the poster.

Will