Re: [ILUG] Re: Decoding fortunes

From: Ross Lynch (kernel at domain student.nuigalway.ie)
Date: Sun 28 May 2000 - 23:34:57 IST


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
>

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Ross Lynch
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