Landon Curt Noll
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While not strictly necessary, replacing the two ASCII tab characters in the markdown copyright comment makes it easier to detect problematic TAB indentation within markdown files. After this commit, only 90 markdown files have leading ASCII TAB characters. And again, while not strictly necessary, we can consider running expand on those 90 markdown files to see what effect that might have on the HTML files they produce. Replace leading ASCII TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters (the default action of the `expand(1)` tool) might have an negative effect on some HTML formatting where **hack-a-round** formatting was attempted to fix broken indentation caused by problematic ASCII TAB characters. Think of this as a baseline for evaluating leading TAB characters within markdown files. TODO: Consider either using `expand(1)` to replace leading ASCII TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters AND/OR modifying the appropriate `bin` tool to convert leading ASCII TAB characters into multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters.
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To build:
make all
To use:
./cmills [starting_cash]
Try:
./cmills 5000
Judges' remarks:
The Makefile uses several -D defines. The following is is a list of the macros
that may be changed:
-DM=<max bet allowed>-DN=<52 * number of decks used>-DX=<how to seed the rand() generator>
The macro V should remain void.
The author noted that a compiler being used assumed that x=*p++ means x*=p++
but do you know why? This is not so strange as it might seem if you look at C's
history. Example code where
this occurs is in John Lions' Commentary on the Sixth Edition UNIX Operating System.
Author's remarks:
This is a blackjack program. It does splits, doubling down, insurance, etc.
As best I can figure, it should be ANSI-compliant, as well as portable to BSD &
SysV (as well as the irritating compiler I was using which assumes x=*p++
means x*=p++!). It is reasonably robust in its error handling---it won't let
you split, double, etc. unless you actually have the cash, etc. To terminate
the program, hit EOF or type 0 or a negative number for you wager.
The way it deals with splits is particularly cool (IMHO). You can split many times, and it will show all hands as they are played.