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Nathan Sidwell  
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 More options Sep 10 1992, 5:48 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c, comp.sources.d, misc.misc, alt.sources, comp.unix.wizards
From: nathan@elberton (Nathan Sidwell)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 13:50:01 BST
Local: Thurs, Sep 10 1992 8:50 am
Subject: Re: 1992 International Obfuscated C Code Contest winners
Landon C. Noll (cho...@hoptoad.uucp) wrote:
: [the shar files]

As chongo stated, my entry can't be posted from the USA. So
I'm posting it from the UK, replace the shar'ed nathan.c with this code.

----8<-- cut here to break your display --->8----
#include <stdio.h>                    
#include <string.h>                    
#define printf sqrt                    
#define OFST 1                          
#define strnel(sqrt)(sqrt-printf)      

int main(argv,argc)int argv;char*argc[]
;{char*i,*sqrt,*magic,*define;int ptr,\
                watch,                
                t,cond                
                ;for(                  
                argc++                
                ,sqrt=                
"1""q""a""z""2""w""s""x""3""e""d""c""4"
"r""f""v""5""t""g""b""6""y""h""n""7""u"

"j""m""8""i""k"",""9""o""l"".""0""p"";"
"/""[""'""`""]""\"\\"" ""Z""X""C""V""B"
"N""M"          "<"">"           "?""~"
"="":"          "L""K"           "J""H"
"G""F"          "D""S"           "A""!"
"Q""@"          "W""#"           "E""$"
"R""%"          "T""^"           "Y""&"
"U""*"          "I""("           "O"")"

"P""_""{""+""}""|""-",define=sqrt,cond=
strlen(printf),i=printf+cond,t=(((ptr=\
argv<=                                  
OFST||                                
strcmp                                
(*argc                                
,i-1))                                
?0:(argc                              

++,argv--)),OFST-1);(watch=fgetc(((!*i\
&&argv>OFST?i=*argc:0),stdin)))!=EOF;*i?
i++:0)                                
(magic                                
=strc\
hr(pr\
intf,(                                
define                                

=(*i?(define=strchr(printf,*i))?define:
printf:sqrt),watch)))?watch=t,watch=((t=
strnel(                         magic))
+(watch                         -strnel
(define                         ))*(ptr
*2-OFST                         )+cond*
(OFST+1                         ))%cond
,ptr?t=watch:0:0,fputc(magic?watch[pri\
ntf]:watch,stdout);return 0;} /*world*/
--

Nathan Sidwell  INMOS UK |                 | nat...@inmos.co.uk       DoD#0390


 
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