Very nerdy Xmas greetings

Came from the KDE user list, apparently...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 20:47:54 -0500
From: John Aldrich
Subject: Fwd: [OT] Christmas Present Mystery

This is TOO strange! Any ideas how it works???? I compiled it as a "user" and it worked just fine (hint: "On the first day of Christmas...." )

John

---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Subject: [OT] Christmas Present Mystery
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 21:45:37 -0500
From: Tony Reed

Here's an off-topic Christmas present for y'all

-----compile from here-----

 #include  
main(t,_,a) 
char *a; 
{return!0

-----to here-----

Disclaimer for the paranoid: It's nothing evil, and anyway, there's my real e-mail address at the top of the message (and my static ip for that matter).

Note that if I compile this with my Mac (under MPW) the output is perfect in both spelling and format, but with Linux it's a little twisted. Someone has said it might be a bigendian thing, but I don't know. I found it at a C tutorial site at the University of Wales, it's definitely not from the Mac world. No one I've talked to has any idea how it works. Merry Christmas.

Tony.




Wednesday, December
8th, 1999 

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