Category : C Source Code
Archive : OBFUSC89.ZIP
Filename : VANB.HIN
Output of file : VANB.HIN contained in archive : OBFUSC89.ZIP
David Van Brackle
Department of Computer Science
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida
32816
USA
Judges notes:
This program computes all proper subsets of the set of
arguments passed to it. Each subset is printed with one
element on each line, followed by a line of ten dashes.
Try:
vanb the rug gary lent
vanb unix is better than os/2
Selected notes from the author:
The program has the following charming and possibly
non-portable features:
* It has no local or global variables,
only the command-line parameters.
* It calls main recursively.
* It alters the command-line parameters.
* It uses the fact that if the high bit is set in a character
variable, the value is negative.
Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/