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From: sjoerd@vu44.UUCP (Sjoerd Mullender)
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Subject: Re: Thompsons self duplicating program
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Date: Fri, 31-Aug-84 04:49:30 EDT
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Jim McKie (mcvax!jim) mentioned a self replicating program he extracted
from 'Some Self-Reproducing Programs' by Theo de Ridder.
I have been able to squeeze out a few more bytes.
Here it is:

char p[]="char p[]=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34,10);}%c";main(){printf(p,34,p,34,10);}

This program is 89 characters.
It can be made shorter if you don't insist on a newline at the end of a
program:

char p[]="char p[]=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}

This one is only 80 characters long.
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			Sjoerd Mullender
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