Saving rotated jokes unrotated

Max Guernsey maxg at tekig.UUCP
Sat May 25 14:07:12 AEST 1985


In article <184 at weitek.UUCP> neal at 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?



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