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authordholland <dholland@NetBSD.org>2013-08-04 05:42:47 +0000
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Add a curses gizmo for solving Sunday-paper-type cryptograms based on
substitution ciphers. It gets the cleartext from fortune. I wrote this some years ago for my own amusement; a couple people have suggested that I should import it. Approved only by groo, so I'm going to wait a couple days to hook it to the build in case anyone demands it be removed again...
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+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2004, 2013 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
+.\" by David A. Holland.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
+.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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+.\"
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+.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
+.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.Dd August 3, 2013
+.Dt CGRAM 6
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm cgram
+.Nd solve Sunday-paper cryptograms
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm
+is a curses-based widget for solving Sunday-paper-type cryptograms
+based on substitution ciphers.
+A random cleartext is chosen using
+.Xr fortune 6
+and a random substitution key is generated.
+.Pp
+The ciphertext is displayed.
+Typing a letter changes the key so that the letter under the cursor
+maps to the newly typed letter, and updates the display accordingly.
+Use Emacs-type cursor commands to move around.
+Enter a tilde
+.Pq ~
+to quit.
+Press asterisk
+.Pq *
+to enter an easier mode where correct letters are displayed in
+boldface.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr caesar 6
+.Sh HISTORY
+.Nm
+was written circa 2004.
+It was imported into
+.Nx
+in 2013 and first appeared in
+.Nx 7.0 .