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- Rot13 version 1.00
- © Sam Kington 25th December 1994
- This program is freeware, *not* public domain – i.e., I retain copyright (see
- “Boring legal message”).
- This module will only work with RISC OS 3 or later.
-
- What this program does
- **********************
-
- Rot13 is a module which will Rot13-encrypt anything you type, as you type.
- (This only works under the desktop, so you can press F12 and turn it off and
- see what you're doing). Rot13-encryption only modifies alphabetical
- characters, and simply moves them 13 spaces along the alphabet. For instance,
- ‘Hello there’ becomes ‘Uryyb gurer’, which in turn becomes ‘Hello there’
- again if you type ‘Uryyb gurer’ for some reason.
-
- Rot13-encryption is habitually used on the Internet, to encrypt postings that
- may cause some people to be offended by them. As this module affects what you
- type in the privacy of your own home, and doesn't allow you to decrypt what
- you have typed, it is thus utterly pointless; if you don't have internet
- access, it is even less useful than it could conceivably have been.
-
- Why is this useful?
- *******************
-
- Well, it’s a desktop silly, so it isn’t ;). People who can read news but
- don’t have rot13 facilities could possibly use it to decrypt messages, but
- that would mean typing in loads of gibberish manually, which is not my idea
- of fun.
-
- Limitations
- ***********
-
- It only works in the Desktop, as it’s a filter, and it also does’t work in
- writable icons. Given the nature of the program, this is probably more of a
- relief than a disappointment to most users ;).
-
- Why is the source code provided?
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-
- A lot of desktop sillies are almost identical, with just the sprites changed
- - there are a *lot* of Wanda-type thingies out there, for instance ;). People
- want to do this - it’s an easy way to learn programming - so I might as well
- help them. That’s why the source code is provided: so other people can write
- similar things, but not have to re-invent the wheel. All you have to bother
- about is the bit between .filter and .exitfilter.
-
- *NB*: although I allow you to modify the code and release new versions of it,
- you *must* acknowledge the origin of the code clearly in the documentation.
-
- Boring legal message
- ********************
-
- This application is freeware, that is, it can be distributed freely as
- long as only reasonable charges are made for media and distribution. I retain
- copyright on all program code and documentation.
-
- This software is supplied “as is”: I make no warranty, expressed or
- implied, of the merchantability of this software or its fitness for any
- particular purpose. In no circumstances shall I be liable for any damage,
- loss of profits, or any indirect or consequential loss arising out of the use
- of this software or inability to use this software, even if I have been
- advised of the possibility of such loss.
-
- Distribution
- ************
-
- You must distribute all files intact, including source code and this
- documentation, with this package – in other words, the files !Run, !Sprites,
- !Sprites22, Rot13, ModSource, !Help and Vsn100. Feel free to muck around with
- it as much as you like when it’s on your machine, but distribute the original
- files, please.
-
- About all these strange foreign characters in this file
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-
- OK, so if you’re reading this on a PC or a Mac or another strange machine
- like that, you may be wondering what all these strange ae things are. Well,
- they’re quotes (sorry, there was another one), dashes, ligatures, etc.
- Honest. But not on all machines...
- Basically, character sets are only standard up to character 127, which is
- basically alphanumerics and a few standard punctuation marks. Foreign
- characters, typographical oddities like quotes and ligatures, and other more
- obscure symbols are “non-standard”, and each computer often has its own idea
- of where they should go in the character set. So don’t worry: even if it’s
- hard to read on your current machine, it won’t be on an Acorn machine. It may
- look slightly strange if you’re using the System font, however.
- But why am I using these strange characters in the first place? Well,
- they’re in the character set and they look nice in an outine font, and I’ve
- written a program called Smart Quotes (sorry for the plug) that substitutes
- these sort of characters automatically, and I’ve got it turned on at the
- moment...
-
- How to contact me
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-
- All bug-reports, suggestions, comments or indeed any feedback at all will be
- welcomed. Here’s how to get to me:
-
- E-mail : 926286ki@udcf.gla.ac.uk
- This should be OK until June 1996
- I won’t be at Glasgow during term-time, but your mail will be
- automagically forwarded to wombat@altern.com.
-
- Snail-mail : My term-time address, at least until June 1995, is:
- Sam Kington
- Flat 2/1
- 44 Hotspur Street
- Glasgow G20 8NL
- SCOTLAND
-
- Again, a backup is the home address – anything that goes here will get
- to me eventually.
- Sam Kington
- Merlhiot
- 24420 Savignac les Eglises
- FRANCE
-
- Term-time is October to June, with bits off at Christmas (3 weeks) and
- Easter (4 weeks).
-