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From: geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning)
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Subject: Re: is there a c program which outputs itself?
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.235745.1809094@locus.com>
Date: 22 Mar 91 23:57:45 GMT
References: <1991Mar21.190907.9789@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Mar21.190907.9789@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz) writes:

> Here's a version which doesn't use excessively cute tricks, assume that
> certain characters have fixed numeric values, or such.  In other words,
> it is an HONEST self-printing program.  It is also a self-starter, in
> that there are really two programs involved. The first one writes the
> second one, based on a shell, which is the actual self-printing
> program.

Both "makeself.c" and "selfstart.c" forgot to end with "return 0;" so that
they would return a success status to the invoker (and thus work reliably
with make).  A neat package, especially since it's so easily extensible!
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning	geoff@la.locus.com	geoff@ITcorp.com