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Depending on if it was the beginning of the sentence the EMail would become 'Email' or 'email'. Some references of 'Email' were changed to 'email' as well as those were not in the beginning of a sentence. A few places some consistency of capitalised email address (made lower case) were changed to match other places of the same pattern.
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1992 marked the "The Ninth International Obfuscated C Code Contest"
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Copyright (c) 1992, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel.
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All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is
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granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety
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and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing
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from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.
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Use make to compile entries. It is possible that on BSD or non-unix
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systems the makefile needs to be changed. See the Makefile for details.
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Look at the source and try to figure out what the programs do, and run
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them with various inputs. If you want to, look at the hints files for
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spoilers - this year we included most of the information included
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by the submitters.
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Read over the makefile for compile/build issues. Your system may
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require certain changes (add or remove a library, add or remove a
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#define). A number of compilers had problems optimizing certain
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entries. Some compilers do optimize, but the resulting program
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does not work. By default we have left off -O from compile lines.
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You might want to add -O back, or add it back for certain entries
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where performance is important.
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This year marked an all time high for number of entries as well as the
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quality of entries. Nearly twice the usual number of entries made it
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to the final judging rounds. Even when we raised the standards for
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winning, we still wound giving out a few more awards than in other
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years. The new size rules size probably contributed to the overall
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high quality.
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FYI: By tradition, we do not record the count the number entries,
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nor do we give our our guess as to the number of entries
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received. For folks who wonder, we can say that we consumed
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about 2000 pages of output (printing between 2 and 4 normal
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pages per side) during the judging process this year.
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The new instructions for submitting entries worked well - we were
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able to write scripts to unpack them and eliminate duplicates.
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As promised last year, we accepted programs that made use of the X
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libraries for the first time. We now consider ANSI C compilers to be
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the "standard" version that the entries were compiled with.
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Name and address information are separated from the actual program
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prior to judging. This eliminates any chance that we would bias our
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judging for/against any person or group. In the end, we are surprised
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as you are to see who as won. Even so, it is worth noting that
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Brian Westley has submitted a winning entry for the past 6 years!
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A few notes regarding future contests:
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We did not give awards to some traditional contest categories such as
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"Best Layout". We felt that to do so would deny awards to more
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deserving entries. These categories have not been eliminated. We will
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likely be awarding them in future years.
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We received a few entries whose instructions were rot13'd. While
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nothing was said about this in the rules, we found that it made the
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judging process a little harder, so we may request that this not
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be done this in the future.
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Some thought has been given to a separate obfuscated perl contest.
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Watch comp.lang.perl for details!
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Be sure to wait until the 1993 rules are posted before submitting entries.
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We may fine tune the rules to reflect the some ideas above.
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Please send us comments and suggestions what we have expressed above.
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Also include anything else that you would like to see in future contests.
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Send such email to:
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...!{sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid}!hoptoad!judges
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judges@toad.com
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If you use, distribute or publish these entries in some way, please drop
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us a line. We enjoy seeing who, where and how the contest is used.
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If you have problems with any of the entries, AND YOU HAVE A FIX, please
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email the fix (patch file or the entire changed file) to the above address.
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Credits:
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We would like to thank Barbara Frezza for her role as official chef of
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the contest. Landon Noll and Larry Bassel appreciated the opportunity
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to serve as official taste testers. Yummo!
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