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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Kenneth Adam Arromdee)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: (rot6)
Message-ID: <1125@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 09:17:23 EST
Article-I.D.: jhunix.1125
Posted: Fri Nov  8 09:17:23 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 15:17:39 EST
References: <678@ihlts.UUCP> <245@ucdavis.UUCP>
Reply-To: ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Adam Arromdee)
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Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr.
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In article <245@ucdavis.UUCP> ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu) writes:
>> >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.
>	--Kevin Chu

The correct syntax for reading them is tr [g-l][a-f][s-x][m-r]zy[G-L][A-F][S-
X][M-R]ZY [a-z][A-Z]. The author apparently left out the brackets.
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