Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site whuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!whuxl!mike From: mike@whuxl.UUCP (BALDWIN) Newsgroups: net.sources,net.lang.c Subject: Re: Thompson's self-duplicating program Message-ID: <182@whuxl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 12:24:57 EDT Article-I.D.: whuxl.182 Posted: Tue Aug 21 12:24:57 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Aug-84 01:41:06 EDT Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany, N.J. Lines: 10 [In reference to Thompson's paper in the last ACM Computer Magazine] The shortest self-duplicating C program I've seen is: char*f="char*f=%c%s%c;main(){printf(f,34,f,34);}";main(){printf(f,34,f,34);} It doesn't have a newline at the end. It's a slight variation of something I saw a while ago somewhere... Michael Baldwin harpo!whuxl!mike