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From: ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: RE: (rot6)
Message-ID: <245@ucdavis.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 03:34:44 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 03:34:44 1985
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> 
> >I have seen several articles beginning with lines of the sort:
> 
> >>> 
> 
> >Why the hell should I bother? I will *not* go through the hassle of 
> >saving the article, extracting the 'tr' line, and running it.
> >Does anyone read these egocentric articles?
> 
> I'm not sure which is funnier. The thought that someone actually might
> go to the trouble of reading those articles, or you asking. Of course
> no one reads them. Silly question.
> 
> Robert

I was stupid enough to try it, and it didn't even work.  Just sat there.

tr (all the junk) < old > new

That was the real joke.
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	--Kevin Chu
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