Author:

• Name: Laurion Burchall
  Location: US - United States of America (United States)

To build:

    make all

Bugs and (Mis)features:

The current status of this entry is:

STATUS: INABIAF - please DO NOT fix

For more detailed information see 1994/ldb in bugs.html.

To use:

    ./ldb < file

    some_command | ./ldb

Try:

    ./try.sh

Judges’ remarks:

Trigraphs are natural obfuscators. Most C-beautifiers become C-uglifiers because they don’t handle them correctly.

Can you figure out how it prints a given random line (or if the line is longer than 231 characters, part of that line) from stdin?

Author’s remarks:

All input lines must be under 232 characters long. The compiling platform should be ASCII based.

Primary files

• ldb.c - entry source code
• Makefile - entry Makefile
• ldb.orig.c - original source code
• try.sh - script to try entry

Secondary files

• 1994_ldb.tar.bz2 - download entry tarball
• README.md - markdown source for this web page
• .entry.json - entry summary and manifest in JSON
• .gitignore - list of files that should not be committed under git
• .path - directory path from top level directory
• index.html - this web page

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