1988 marked the "The Fifth International Obfuscated C Code Contest"
Copyright (c) 1988, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel.
All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is
granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety
and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing
from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.
The maximum size of entries was raised from 1024 to 1536 bytes, however
smaller entries were encouraged. Due to the "Best Abuse of the Rules"
winner of 1987, a limit of 160 chars in the compile line was introduced.
This year, the Grand Prize was given to the most unusual entry and best
abuse of the C Preprocessor rather than the most well rounded entry.
Rules and results were posted to comp.lang.c, comp.sources.unix and
alt.sources. The 1988 winners will be published in the Micro/Systems
Journal.
Winning entries for previous years were repackaged with each year
being in its own directory. Make files and hints were also provided.
The package was posted to the: comp.sources.unix newsgroup. They are
also available on a wide number of Usenet archive sites.
Landon Curt Noll
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