Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/1/84; site scc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!pesnta!scc!steiny From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Shortest possible self-reproducer Message-ID: <146@scc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 15-Sep-84 03:59:36 EDT Article-I.D.: scc.146 Posted: Sat Sep 15 03:59:36 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 06:22:38 EDT References: <3400033@ea.UUCP> Organization: Personetics, Inc. - Santa Cruz, Calif. Lines: 14 *** Of course if you name a file "c" and it contains "cat c", then you have a 6 character self reproducer. If you link "cat" to "x" then "x c" would be a 4 character self-reproducer. -- "Damn, more bats ... Someone get me a ruler!" Don Steiny - Personetics @ (408) 425-0382 109 Torrey Pine Terr. Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 ihnp4!pesnta -\ fortune!idsvax -> scc!steiny ucbvax!twg -/