Newsgroups: comp.compression
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: DDJ compression competition FLAME
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 91 01:23:58 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr09.012358.16300@looking.on.ca>
References: <1991Apr8.160133.22070@kcbbs.gen.nz>

Actually the DDJ contest did allow you to submit a Unix program.

However, it was silly to let people have the inputs in advance.  I am
sure that some user, or several, will submit a program that outputs
one byte (there were 3 possible test files) and just copies over the
files.   (Harder to do this under DOS since you can't put megabytes in
an executable)

And I am sure the editors will say, "cute, but obviously not what we
intended" and award the prize money to somebody else.

C'est la geurre.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473