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[ILUG] Re: Decoding fortunes

[ILUG] Re: Decoding fortunes

Ross Lynch kernel at student.nuigalway.ie
Sun May 28 23:34:57 IST 2000


On Sat, 27 May 2000, Paul Mc Auley wrote:

> On Sat, 27 May 2000 20:20:25 +0100 (IST) Ross Lynch  wrote:
> 
> | use the caeser program. it decryptes rot13. should be in /usr/games
> 
> | try cat fortunes-o|caeser|less
> 

Just to clarify, the above works perfectly. It may not be _the_ definitive
command set, but I never hinted that it was. As for caesar, on Redhat6.0
at least, caesar defaults to rot13 decryption.

Ross.

> Eek! Upside down quoting, incorrect response and useless use of cat!
> 
> caesar takes a numeric argument and defaults to rot 0
> 
> Something a little more effective might be:
> caesar 13 < filename | less
> 	Paul
> 

-- 
Ross Lynch
087 6548827
ross at onesphere.net
kernel at student.nuigalway.ie





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