in reply to can this text be recovered???

What are the lines of numbers at the top the result of? I suppose they surfaced to the top after the sort command was performed, but I'm not sure about this.

From the comments already posted I understand that the document probably couldn't be decoded in its entirety. But if there are ways to recover some of the text, this would almost be just as useful!

Thanks!

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Re^2: can this text be recovered???
by kyle (Abbot) on Mar 19, 2007 at 19:20 UTC

    You can get the words by running it through rot13. 

    perl -pe 'tr/a-z/n-za-m/' < encoded

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    That will be every unique word that was in the original text, in alphabetical order.

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      And to rot13 the uppercase characters: 

      perl -pe 'tr/a-zA-Z/n-za-mN-ZA-M/' < encoded

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