[45997] in Cypherpunks
Re: Encrypted script - sort of
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark)
Wed Dec 27 21:11:39 1995
From: mark@ausnetinfo.com.au (Mark)
To: master@internexus.net (Laszlo Vecsey)
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 09:34:47 +1100 (EST)
Cc: jimbell@pacifier.com, jpp@software.net, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951222230842.16815A-100000@micro.internexus.net> from "Laszlo Vecsey" at Dec 22, 95 11:13:44 pm
>> >A tale I hear is that when HP had to deliver operating system source to
>> >the french government they stripped all comments and changed all variable
>> >and subroutine names to 32 byte strings of I 1 0 (zero) and O (uppercase O).
>> >It still compiled but was 100% useless to human readers.
>
>A somewhat useful utility would be one that would compress C code into as
>small space as possible, stripping out all spaces and making variable
>names one character a piece when possible. And of course one to expand it
>back into 'formatted' text, style could even be incorporated.
>
>I'm sure a Perl fanatic knows a quick solution... I'm always amazed at
>how short Perl code is.. :) Anyone care to take care of this utility?
press.c has been circulating for several years. I dont know of an unpress.c
but a beautifier would do the same thing.
