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  3. February 2002

Re: CREATORS ADMIT C AND UNIX A HOAX!

But what version were you running it on? ... perhaps the syntax has changed.
Could there be a typo in the transcription?

> Okay, so I decided to try it:
>
>  I cut/pasted "for(;P("\n"),
R-;P("|"))for(e=C;e-;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("|"+(*u/
> 4)%2)"
>  into a file called "hoax.c".
>
>  Tried to compile it:
>
>  (w7) 4:13pm ~ > cc -o hoax hoax.c
>  hoax.c:1: syntax error before `for'
>
>  Eh?  It doesn't even get as far as the first word in the statement before
>  failing.


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