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From: rickc@agora.UUCP (Rick Coates)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Morse Code Program for PC-XT
Summary: This is from the Obfuscated C contest
Message-ID: <1008@agora.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 88 13:34:57 GMT
References:  <5391@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <2834@cadnetix.COM>
Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR
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Rusty writes:

> (program translation: .  _._   ._  .._  _._.  ._  .._  ._.    etc.)
> (or                   e   k     a   u    c     a   u    r   ......?????
> 
> Hmmm, unless I have REALLY forgotten the code, I cannot make heads or tails of
> the message here (partly :-), partly serious).

>> This compiles and works, believe it or not!
>
> Yes, but what does it SAY?
> 
>     Rusty Carruth	N7IKQ	DOMAIN: rusty@cadnetix.com

Give the author a break! :-) This is only a two level pun (looks like Morse,
compiles in C) not three level (first two and has a real message in Morse).

BTW - this code is from the annual Obfuscated C code contest.  I'm sure
that some sort of statement is being made when a winner in an unreadable code
contest is being used as useful code, but it's too obscure for me.

(I can see it now - Zen C coding ...  ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm)


Rick Coates

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