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                     20: .TH CAESAR 6 "June 23, 1990"
                     21: .UC 7
                     22: .SH NAME
                     23: caesar \- decrypt caesar cyphers
                     24: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     25: .B caesar
                     26: [
                     27: .B rotation
                     28: ]
                     29: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     30: The
                     31: .I caesar
                     32: utility attempts to decrypt caesar cyphers using letter frequency
                     33: statistics.
                     34: .I Caesar
                     35: reads from the standard input and writes to the standard output.
                     36: .PP
                     37: The optional numerical argument
                     38: .I rotation
                     39: may be used to specify a specific rotation value.
                     40: For example,
                     41: .B "caesar 13"
                     42: may be used to decrypt rotated postings to USENET
                     43: as well as some of the databases used with the
                     44: .I fortune
                     45: program.

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