Fix compilation and README of 2006/borsanyi
The Makefile needs -lpthread because not all systems implicitly link it in. I tentatively noted this fix in the README.md but I'm not sure about it as it's nothing special at all. Format fix README.md. I note that I could not add <>s to the email address as for some reason (in particular the dot in the email early on) caused rdiscount (or I think - vim syntax certainly had a problem).
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@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ CFLAGS= ${CSTD} ${CWARN} ${ARCH} ${CDEFINE} ${CINCLUDE} ${OPT}
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# Libraries needed to build
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#
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LIBS=
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LIBS= -lpthread
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# C compiler to use
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#
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# Most Useful
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Szabolcs Borsanyi
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Department of Physics and Astronomy
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University of Sussex
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Brighton
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East Sussex BN1 9QH
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United Kingdom
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s.borsanyi at sussex dot ac dot uk
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Szabolcs Borsanyi
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United Kingdom
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s.borsanyi at sussex dot ac dot uk
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## To build:
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make
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```
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[Cody Boone Ferguson](/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson) fixed (the Makefile)
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under some systems where the `lpthread` was not implicitly linked in. Thank you
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Cody!
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## To run:
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```sh
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@@ -46,24 +46,27 @@ anti-CAPTCHA tools.
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Most spam robots collect email addresses from the web sites of
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innocent people, like you. Conference organizers cannot disclose
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the participant's address to prevent malicious users from
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grabbing them. One solution is to write as my_email _at_ address
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_dot_ com. But robots are clever enough to sort that out. A
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grabbing them. One solution is to write as `my_email _at_ address
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_dot_ com`. But robots are clever enough to sort that out. A
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more sophisticated approach is to create an image file with the
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email address and put that on the web page.
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This program creates a GIF image file from the address given
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in the command line. To avoid complications with patent issues
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the LZW compression feature is not used. A typical email address
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is stored in less than 1-2 kilobytes.
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This program creates a GIF image file from the address given in the command
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line. To avoid complications with patent issues the [LZW
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compression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel-Ziv-Welch) feature is not
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used. A typical email address is stored in less than 1-2 kilobytes.
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### Usage:
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$ gcc email.c -lpthread -o email
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$ ./email my@email.address.com > email.gif
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$ my_favourite_gif_viewer email.gif
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```sh
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make all
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./borsanyi my@example.com > email.gif
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my_favourite_gif_viewer email.gif
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```
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The address cannot be longer than 42 characters, and may consist of
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the characters: a-z_A-Z0-9@.-
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the characters: `a-z_A-Z0-9@.-`.
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The program is (like email addresses are) case insensitive.
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### Obfuscation:
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@@ -73,26 +76,27 @@ entry supports up to 25 cores. The odd names in the bottom
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part of the program do have a meaning, they are not there just
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for obfuscation. The preprocessor is used to keep the program
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small, in fact, everything is a macro. Are you familiar with
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the GIF format? Studying this program will give you a (very
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little) insight.
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the GIF format? Studying this program will give you a (very)
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little insight.
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### Questions:
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After analyzing the source code, try to answer these questions:
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1. How can you add a further supported symbol?
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2. Can you alter the look of the output characters?
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3. What limits the number of input characters to 42?
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### Portability:
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The program uses posix threads (using the linker flag -lpthread).
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The program uses posix threads (using the linker flag `-lpthread`).
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The program accepts email addresses not longer than 42 bytes
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composed from letters, digits, and the @._- symbols. An address
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composed from letters, digits, and the `@._-` symbols. An address
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not obeying these rules will cause undefined behaviour. The
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program is not expected to depend on endianness. The standard
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output is used for a binary output, which might cause problems.
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To avoid most caveats, the program does not output the octet
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0x0a. The program assumes the use of ASCII.
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`0x0a`. The program assumes the use of ASCII.
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## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
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