neal@weitek.UUCP (Neal Bedard) (05/22/85)
The one way I have found thus far to get at joke rotation is to
invoke `postnews' (on our 4.2 Bsd site) and go thru the motions of posting
text to net.jokes. YECCHH!!!
I'm assuming you know how to use postnews. The steps are:
1. Save the joke in rotated form from readnews (or equiv.)
in a file.
2. Invoke postnews, by exiting readnews or by posting a followup
article.
3. When prompted for "newsgroups", enter net.jokes. This is
crucial, as postnews will send rotated text to this group only.
4. While in the editor, read the file saved above in (1) into the
text to be posted.
5. Exit the editor. Postnews will ask:
Can this be offensive to anyone ? [n]:
Enter `y'.
The previously rotated text will now be unrotated.
6. postnews will now ask :
What now ? [send, edit, list, quit, write]
Write text into a file. Then quit.
Voila! rotated joke saved in readable form.
Maybe someone knows a better way. I'm listening...
-Neal B.
"Your karma ran over my dogma"
"And so Jung, too..."
"Kant you do anything?"
"Only a Skinner would be useful now..."jordan@greipa.UUCP (Jordan K. Hubbard) (05/23/85)
Barf! That whole bit about using postnews seemed somewhat.. long..
Just use the 'caesar' program in /usr/lib/news.. I know it comes
in 2.10.2, probably 2.10.1 also.. caesar < rot'd-text-file > readable
It's what I do anyway..
--
Jordan K. Hubbard
@ Genstar Rental Electronics.
Palo Alto, CA.
{sun, decwrl, dual}!twg!greipa!jordan
"Ack ack!".
- William the felinerandy@nlm-vax.ARPA (Rand Huntzinger) (05/23/85)
The program which rotates and unrotates jokes is called caesar, and it is
probably resides in the news library directory (on our system /usr/lib/news).
So, you can save a rotated news article by issuing the following command from
rn:
| /usr/lib/news/caesar > file-name
The commands to do this under readnews and vnews are very similar.zben@umd5.UUCP (05/23/85)
This is an easier way: 1. Make yourself a shell script named "rot" with this line in it: tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M 2. Don't forget to make it executable with: chmod +x rot 3. In the "rn" program you can give commands like: | /u/zben/rot | pr | lpr (Makes a printed copy) | /u/zben/rot >/u/zben/savefile (Saves it in file) Many other news reading programs have similar exits for invoking pipes. On this version I had to give the full path name of the filter. Please remember to substitute the name of the directory where your filter lives for the "/u/zben" above. The full name of the savefile was given above because rn changes directories a lot, and I don't trust it. Now, as an exercise to the reader, and to satisfy the requirements of this group that postings need include a joke, x out and create the filter and try to decode the remainder of this posting: N jbzna vf zneevrq, naq fur unf svir puvyqera. Ure uhfonaq hasbeghangryl qvrf lbhat, fb fur erzneevrf naq unf svir zber puvyqera. Guvf uhfonaq nyfb qvrf fhqqrayl, fb fur lrg ntnva erzneevrf naq unf svir zber puvyqera. Svanyyl fur tvirf hc gur tubfg. Ng ure shareny n snzvyl zrzore jnf urneq gb erznex: "Jryy, svanyyl gurl ner gbtrgure!" Na baybbxre, urnevat guvf erznex, nfxf: "Qb lbh zrna jvgu ure svefg uhfonaq, ure frpbaq uhfonaq, be ure guveq uhfonaq?". Gur snzvyl zrzore ercyvrf: "Ab, fvyyl, ure yrtf!" -- Ben Cranston ...{seismo!umcp-cs,ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!zben zben@umd2.ARPA
jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick) (05/23/85)
> Voila! rotated joke saved in readable form. > Maybe someone knows a better way. I'm listening... Maybe not better, but here's a different method. Rot-13 is simply a procedure of swapping every letter with the one 13 places forward (or back) in the alphabet (ie a<-->n, b<-->o, c<-->p etc) so a simple program will do it. I wrote one (with considerable ignorance, but I've never got around to updating it) called rotify.c which takes the contents of a file and replaces it with the rotified version, up to 10000 chars. With this you can save a rot-13 joke or make up your own with a question and an answer which is readable by hitting D. (Obviously, to do this you only rotify the answer.) John Purbrick jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA {...decvax!genrad! ...allegra!mit-vax!} mit-eddie!mit-hermes!jpexg #define MAXBYTES 10000 main(){ int fnum, numbytes, clox; char inbuf[MAXBYTES], fname[20]; printf("What file to rotify? "); scanf("%s", fname); /* Get the file name */ fnum = open(fname, 522, 0); /* Open for reading */ numbytes = read(fnum, inbuf, MAXBYTES); /* Transfer to buffer */ close(fnum); fnum = open(fname, 1025, 0); /* Reopen for writing */ for (clox = 0; clox < numbytes; clox++) /* Rotify!! */ { if ((inbuf[clox] > ('a'-1)) && (inbuf[clox] < 'n')) inbuf[clox] += 13; else if ((inbuf[clox] > 'm') && (inbuf[clox] < ('z'+1))) inbuf[clox] -= 13; else if ((inbuf[clox] > ('A'-1)) && (inbuf[clox] < 'N')) inbuf[clox] += 13; else if ((inbuf[clox] > 'M') && (inbuf[clox] < ('Z'+1))) inbuf[clox] -= 13; else continue; /* Ignore nonalphabetics */ } write(fnum, inbuf, numbytes); /* Write the file again */ close(fnum); /* And close it */ }
rcj1@ihlpm.UUCP (r j) (05/23/85)
To save rotated jokes unrotated create an executable file named rot with the following command in it: tr "[A-Z][a-z]" "[N-Z][A-M][n-z][a-m]" < $1 > $1.unrot Now, all you have to is: rot $1 - where $1 is the file containing the rotated jokes... The unrotated jokes will be in a file called $1.unrot..... PS: This is for rot13.... Ray ihlpm!rcj1
lionel@garfield.UUCP (Lionel H. Moser) (05/24/85)
> > The one way I have found thus far to get at joke rotation is to > invoke `postnews' (on our 4.2 Bsd site) and go thru the motions of posting > text to net.jokes. YECCHH!!! > > I'm assuming you know how to use postnews. The steps are: Yes there is any easier way. I just back up to the header for the joke, and issue the command: D > filename This Decodes the joke, and writes the output to the named file. Lionel H. Moser Department of Computer Science Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, Newfoundland Canada A1C 5S7 UUCP: {ihnp4, utcsri, allegra} !garfield!lionel
sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) (05/25/85)
In article <184@weitek.UUCP> neal@weitek.UUCP (Neal Bedard) writes: > > The one way I have found thus far to get at joke rotation is to >invoke `postnews' (on our 4.2 Bsd site) and go thru the motions of posting >text to net.jokes. YECCHH!!!... >...Voila! rotated joke saved in readable form. >Maybe someone knows a better way. I'm listening... I whipped this filter together in about 10 minutes. It simply does ROT13 rotation. It could probably be done better. Compile with: cc -O -o unrot unrot.c ------------------------- CUT HERE ------------------------------------- /* * unrot.c * * Simple filter to unrotate text which has been encrypted * with rot13 (caesar) encryption. * * Sean Casey, 1985 * */ #include <stdio.h> main() { register int c; while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) { if ( c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') { c += 13; if ( c > 'Z' ) c -= 26; } else { if ( c >= 'a' && c <= 'z') { c += 13; if ( c > 'z' ) c -= 26; } } putchar(c); } } ------------------------------ CUT HERE ------------------------------------ -- - Sean Casey UUCP: {cbosgd,anlams,hasmed}!ukma!sean - Department of Mathematics ARPA: ukma!sean@ANL-MCS.ARPA - University of Kentucky
maxg@tekig.UUCP (Max Guernsey) (05/25/85)
In article <184@weitek.UUCP> neal@weitek.UUCP (Neal Bedard) writes: > > The one way I have found thus far to get at joke rotation is to >invoke `postnews' (on our 4.2 Bsd site) and go thru the motions of posting >text to net.jokes. YECCHH!!! > >I'm assuming you know how to use postnews. The steps are: > > 1. Save the joke in rotated form from readnews (or equiv.) > in a file. > > 2. Invoke postnews, by exiting readnews or by posting a followup > article. > > 3. When prompted for "newsgroups", enter net.jokes. This is > crucial, as postnews will send rotated text to this group only. > > 4. While in the editor, read the file saved above in (1) into the > text to be posted. > > 5. Exit the editor. Postnews will ask: > > Can this be offensive to anyone ? [n]: > > Enter `y'. > > The previously rotated text will now be unrotated. > > 6. postnews will now ask : > > What now ? [send, edit, list, quit, write] > > Write text into a file. Then quit. > >Voila! rotated joke saved in readable form. >Maybe someone knows a better way. I'm listening... > > > -Neal B. > How 'bout ^x to rn?
schwartz@aecom.UUCP (Yosef Klavan) (05/29/85)
There is a much simpler way to save an encrypted joke in an uncrypted form. Upon encountering a ROT-13 joke that you want to save, 'DEROT' it, and pipe it into a file using 'cat'. Example: on the UNIX here (sys 3), the way to derot a joke is to use a 'D'. SO: D | cat > filename ^ pipe sign An immediate hard copy can be printed with 'D | print'. Enjoy.
haahr@jendeh.UUCP (Paul Haahr) (06/05/85)
> D | cat > filename > > ^ > pipe sign why not "D > filename" ???? C'mon folks, let's remember that cat copies its input to its output unmodified.