1992 marked the "The Ninth International Obfuscated C Code Contest"Copyright (c) 1992, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel.All Rights Reserved.  Permission for personal, education or non-profit use isgranted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entiretyand remains unaltered.  All other uses must receive prior permission in writingfrom both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.Use make to compile entries.  It is possible that on BSD or non-unixsystems the makefile needs to be changed.  See the Makefile for details.Look at the source and try to figure out what the programs do, and runthem with various inputs.  If you want to, look at the hints files forspoilers - this year we included most of the information includedby the submitters.Read over the makefile for compile/build issues.  Your system mayrequire certain changes (add or remove a library, add or remove a#define).  A number of compilers had problems optimizing certainentries.  Some compilers do optimize, but the resulting programdoes not work.  By default we have left off -O from compile lines.  You might want to add -O back, or add it back for certain entrieswhere performance is important.This year marked an all time high for number of entries as well as thequality of entries.  Nearly twice the usual number of entries made itto the final judging rounds.  Even when we raised the standards forwinning, we still wound giving out a few more awards than in otheryears.  The new size rules size probably contributed to the overallhigh quality.FYI: By tradition, we do not record the count the number entries,     nor do we give our our guess as to the number of entries      received.  For folks who wonder, we can say that we consumed      about 2000 pages of output (printing between 2 and 4 normal      pages per side) during the judging process this year.The new instructions for submitting entries worked well - we wereable to write scripts to unpack them and eliminate duplicates.As promised last year, we accepted programs that made use of the Xlibraries for the first time.  We now consider ANSI C compilers to bethe "standard" version that the entries were compiled with.Name and address information are separated from the actual programprior to judging.  This eliminates any chance that we would bias ourjudging for/against any person or group.  In the end, we are surprisedas you are to see who as won.  Even so, it is worth noting thatBrian Westley has submitted a winning entry for the past 6 years!A few notes regarding future contests:We did not give awards to some traditional contest categories such as"Best Layout".  We felt that to do so would deny awards to moredeserving entries.  These categories have not been eliminated.  We willlikely be awarding them in future years.We received a few entries whose instructions were rot13'd.  Whilenothing was said about this in the rules, we found that it made the judging process a little harder, so we may request that this notbe done this in the future.Some thought has been given to a separate obfuscated perl contest.Watch comp.lang.perl for details!Be sure to wait until the 1993 rules are posted before submitting entries.  We may fine tune the rules to reflect the some ideas above.Please send us comments and suggestions what we have expressed above.Also include anything else that you would like to see in future contests.Send such email to:	...!{sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid}!hoptoad!judges	judges@toad.comIf you use, distribute or publish these entries in some way, please dropus a line.  We enjoy seeing who, where and how the contest is used.If you have problems with any of the entries, AND YOU HAVE A FIX, pleaseEmail the fix (patch file or the entire changed file) to the above address.Credits:We would like to thank Barbara Frezza for her role as official chef ofthe contest.  Landon Noll and Larry Bassel appreciated the opportunityto serve as official taste testers. Yummo!