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Landon Curt Noll f64f244ba6 update due to recent commits
The largest change was due to modifying `ioccc.css`
that resulted in all year and entry tarballs being modified.

Ran `make update` to perform the above.
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To build:

    make all

Bugs and (Mis)features:

The current status of this entry is:

STATUS: INABIAF - please DO NOT fix

For more detailed information see 1988/dale in bugs.html.

Try:

    ./try.sh

Observe that three of the commands in the script are:

    ./dale these files are in this directory: *
    ./dale $(printf "the following files exist in this directory:\n%s\n" *)
    ./dale "$(printf "the following files exist in this directory:\n%s\n" *)"

As the script asks what do the last two do and why do they do it? Why do they differ in format from the first command? Finally how can you get the more likely desired behaviour?

Judges' remarks:

This entry has a very twisted flow of control via recursion, iteration and multi-processing. Try to understand what is being done with the system calls.

NOTE: This program assumes the ASCII character set is being used.

Author's remarks:

No remarks were provided by the author.