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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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To build:

    make

Bugs and (Mis)features:

The current status of this entry is:

STATUS: INABIAF - please DO NOT fix

For more detailed information see 2011/konno in bugs.html.

To use:

    ./konno lower_case_word

Try:

    ./try.sh

Judges' remarks:

This tiny program outputs what looks like a tiny keyboard. OK, so the letters are missing. But that is no problem because this program identifies the lower case letters that were pressed!

It is one of those minimal keyboards without all of those confusing symbols keys. No shift for SHOUTING CAPS but at least it does not have that useless CAPS LOCK key!

We recommend that you completely deconstruct / figure out how this program works and does what it does. Can you extend this program to deal with a full QWERTY keyboard? Can you then minimize the size of that code?

Author's remarks:

Limitation

This program ignores non-lower case letters.

Obfuscation

  • for is not used.
  • A part of the program is encrypted.