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From: fred@gymble.UUCP
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Subject: Re: A 13 character self duplicator - can we then stop?
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Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 13:54:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  7 13:54:05 1984
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	From: addw@root44.UUCP (Alain Williams)
	Newsgroups: net.sources
	Subject: A 13 character self duplicator -can we then stop ?
	Message-ID: <4911@root44.UUCP>
	Date: Thu, 6-Sep-84 08:17:04 EDT

	How about: cat `path $0` (with no newline on the end)
	OK it depends on path (which gives the path to a command), but
	most of the others depend on printf().
						- Alain Williams,

Allright, if we're going to include shell scripts in the competition, I
submit the null program. If you don't believe this works do:

	cp /dev/null foo
	chmod a+x foo
	foo > bar
	cmp foo bar

Now try and get something shorter than that. ;-)

-- 
					Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690
					harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!fred
					Fred@Maryland.ARPA