update year level README files
Move copyright notice to the end. Add a standard comment about the newly added `README.md` files. Clean up trailing whitespace. Fixed a few minor typos.
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1992 marked the "The Ninth International Obfuscated C Code Contest"
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Copyright (c) 1992, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel.
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All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is
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granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety
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and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing
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from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.
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Look at the README.md file for the given winner for information
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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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Use make to compile entries. It is possible that on BSD or non-unix
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systems the makefile needs to be changed. See the Makefile for details.
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Look at the source and try to figure out what the programs do, and run
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them with various inputs. If you want to, look at the hints files for
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spoilers - this year we included most of the information included
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by the submitters.
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Read over the makefile for compile/build issues. Your system may
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require certain changes (add or remove a library, add or remove a
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#define). A number of compilers had problems optimizing certain
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entries. Some compilers do optimize, but the resulting program
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does not work. By default we have left off -O from compile lines.
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does not work. By default we have left off -O from compile lines.
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You might want to add -O back, or add it back for certain entries
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where performance is important.
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@@ -30,9 +25,9 @@ years. The new size rules size probably contributed to the overall
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high quality.
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FYI: By tradition, we do not record the count the number entries,
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nor do we give our our guess as to the number of entries
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received. For folks who wonder, we can say that we consumed
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about 2000 pages of output (printing between 2 and 4 normal
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nor do we give our our guess as to the number of entries
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received. For folks who wonder, we can say that we consumed
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about 2000 pages of output (printing between 2 and 4 normal
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pages per side) during the judging process this year.
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The new instructions for submitting entries worked well - we were
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@@ -57,14 +52,14 @@ deserving entries. These categories have not been eliminated. We will
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likely be awarding them in future years.
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We received a few entries whose instructions were rot13'd. While
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nothing was said about this in the rules, we found that it made the
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nothing was said about this in the rules, we found that it made the
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judging process a little harder, so we may request that this not
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be done this in the future.
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Some thought has been given to a separate obfuscated perl contest.
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Watch comp.lang.perl for details!
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Be sure to wait until the 1993 rules are posted before submitting entries.
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Be sure to wait until the 1993 rules are posted before submitting entries.
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We may fine tune the rules to reflect the some ideas above.
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Please send us comments and suggestions what we have expressed above.
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We would like to thank Barbara Frezza for her role as official chef of
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the contest. Landon Noll and Larry Bassel appreciated the opportunity
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to serve as official taste testers. Yummo!
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=-=
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Copyright (c) 1992, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel.
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All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is
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granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety
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and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing
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from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.
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