Update several year README.md files
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@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ A poll was taken for the worst code for BSD and System V program.
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The Bourne Shell (/bin/sh) won for both systems. The BSD finger
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program took third place.
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Rules and results were posted to net.lang.c and net.unix-wizards.
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Micro/Systems Journal published started regular publishing of the winners.
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[Rules](rules.txt) and results were posted to net.lang.c and net.unix-wizards.
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Micro/Systems Journal started regular publishing of the winners.
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The practice of making first announcement of the winners at the Summer
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Usenix BOF started this year. A notice was posted to net.announce.
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@@ -6,19 +6,21 @@ on how to compile the winner and how to run the winning program.
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Look at the winning source and try to figure how it does what it does!
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You may then wish to look at the Author's comments for even more details.
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The rules for 1987 suggested even more categories than in 1986. Hints
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for what to do and not to do were also given in the rules. For
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example, a simple excessive abuse of /lib/cpp was discouraged unless
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the abuse was unusual. The mailboxes for the contest were moved from
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nsc to amdahl. The practice of posting a preliminary set of rules for
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the next year was started this year.
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The [rules for 1997](rules.txt) suggested even more categories than in 1986.
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Hints for what to do and not to do were also given in the [rules](rules.txt).
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For example, a simple excessive abuse of /lib/cpp was discouraged unless the
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abuse was unusual. The mailboxes for the contest were moved from nsc to amdahl.
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The practice of posting a preliminary set of rules for the next year was started
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this year.
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Rules and results were posted to comp.lang.c, comp.unix.wizards with
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[Rules](rules.txt) and results were posted to comp.lang.c and comp.unix.wizards with
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an announcement in news.announce.important. Micro/Systems Journal
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published the 1987 winners. Mark Horton included a version of the 1987
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winners in an appendix of his C book. The first announcement of
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winners at the Summer 87 Usenix was helped by a small fly that
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danced all over the foils.
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published the 1987 winners. [Mark R.
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Horton](https://www.amazon.com/stores/Mark-R.-Horton/author/B001HPGRB8) included a version of the [1987
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winners](../years.html#1987) in an appendix of his C book [Portable C Software International
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Edition](https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Software-Mark-R-Horton/dp/0138680507).
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The first announcement of winners at the Summer 87 Usenix was helped by a small
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fly that danced all over the foils.
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You may then wish to look at the Author's comments for even more details.
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The maximum size of entries was raised from 1024 to 1536 bytes, however
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smaller entries were encouraged. Due to the "Best Abuse of the Rules"
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winner of 1987, a limit of 160 chars in the compile line was introduced.
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smaller entries were encouraged. Due to the ["Best Abuse of the Rules"
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winner of 1987](../1987/biggar/), a limit of 160 chars in the compile line was
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introduced.
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This year, the Grand Prize was given to the most unusual entry and best
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abuse of the C Preprocessor rather than the most well rounded entry.
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Rules and results were posted to comp.lang.c, comp.sources.unix and
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alt.sources. The 1988 winners will be published in the Micro/Systems
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Journal.
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[Rules](rules.txt) and results were posted to comp.lang.c, comp.sources.unix and
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alt.sources. The 1988 winners will be published in the Micro/Systems Journal.
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Winning entries for previous years were repackaged with each year
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being in its own directory. Make files and hints were also provided.
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being in its own directory. Makefiles and hints were also provided.
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The package was posted to the: comp.sources.unix newsgroup. They are
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also available on a wide number of Usenet archive sites.
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You may then wish to look at the Author's comments for even more details.
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Instructions for use: Run make to compile entries (it is possible
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that on System V or non-unix systems the makefile needs to be
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that on System V or non-unix systems the Makefile needs to be
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changed).
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This year, the Grand Prize was given to the most useful program.
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The "Strangest abuse of the rules" award was given this year to stress
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the fact that starting in 1990, compiling entries must result an
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The ["Strangest abuse of the rules"](jar.1/README.md) award was given this year
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to stress the fact that starting in 1990, compiling entries must result an
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executable regular file.
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The makefile always uses the portable version of the "Best
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self modifying program" because there as no loss of functionality in
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using it. In the case of the "Best game" winner, however, some
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functionality is lost in the portable version and so the makefile uses
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the original program. System V users may need to change the makefile
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The Makefile always uses the portable version of the ["Best
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self modifying program"](fubar/) because there as no loss of functionality in
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using it. In the case of the ["Best game"](tromp/) winner, however, some
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functionality is lost in the portable version and so the Makefile uses
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the original program. System V users may need to change the Makefile
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to use the s5 version. See the hint files or the Makefile for details.
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Rules and results were posted to comp.lang.c, comp.sources.unix, and
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[Rules](rules.txt) and results were posted to comp.lang.c, comp.sources.unix, and
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alt.sources. They have been made available on a wide number of Usenet
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archive sites such as uunet. The 1989 winners will be published in the
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Micro/Systems Journal.
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