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Landon Curt Noll c78bda6c0f update tarballs due to recent commits
The commit a1c86c8a7a modified
the navigation bars to include "Original C", so all tarballs
had be update, sorry (tm Canada 🇨🇦).  In particular:

The navigation bar for a winning entry now has a "_Original C_" link
(between the ✅ and the Inventory on the right hand side) so that one
may easily view the original C code that was submitted for IOCCC judging.

In addition, a number of other commits since that time
modified other winning entries.

Ran `make update` to perform the above.
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..
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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 1994/ldb in bugs.html.

To use:

    ./ldb < file

    some_command | ./ldb

Try:

    ./try.sh

Judges' remarks:

Trigraphs are natural obfuscators. Most C-beautifiers become C-uglifiers because they don't handle them correctly.

Can you figure out how it prints a given random line (or if the line is longer than 231 characters, part of that line) from stdin?

Author's remarks:

All input lines must be under 232 characters long. The compiling platform should be ASCII based.