Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site jhunix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!aplcen!jhunix!ins_akaa 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) Distribution: net Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr. Lines: 26 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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you know the alphabet up to 'k', you can teach it up to 'k'. Kenneth Arromdee BITNET: G46I4701 at JHUVM and INS_AKAA at JHUVMS CSNET: ins_akaa@jhunix.CSNET ARPA: ins_akaa%jhunix@hopkins.ARPA UUCP: ...{decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!aplcen!jhunix!ins_akaa