[45836] in Cypherpunks
Encrypted script - sort of
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laszlo Vecsey)
Fri Dec 22 23:25:23 1995
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 23:13:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Laszlo Vecsey <master@internexus.net>
To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Cc: John Pettitt <jpp@software.net>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <m0tTFol-00090DC@pacifier.com>
> >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?
