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From: mikel@bmcg.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: How to rotate a joke
Message-ID: <1361@bmcg.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 10:59:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: bmcg.1361
Posted: Mon Sep 17 10:59:45 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 08:19:58 EDT
Organization: Burroughs Corporation, San Diego
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[Row, row, row your bits, gently down the stream...]

Since I've been here, no one has posted an explanation of how to rotate and
unrotate jokes. Well here is what you do. Include this file in your 'bin'
account or in your path searchlist somewhere. Make it is executable with a
'chmod +x rot13' command. Also make sure to say 'rehash' so the shell can find
the file.
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# rot13 - rotate a joke
cat $* | tr n-za-mN-ZA-M a-zA-Z > /tmp/rotated_joke
postnews /tmp/rotated_joke
rm /tmp/rotated_joke
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When you want to rotate a joke, make the final joke in a file and then say:

% rot13 file_name
Subject: 
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To decode a joke, from readnews say 'D 13' or to save it to a file,
'D 13>file_name' or 'D 13>>file_name'. If it is in a file already you can say
'cat file_name | tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M'.

Mike Lesher
Burroughs ASG, San Diego, CA.
(..!bmcg!mikel)