Richard wrote:
OK, let me rephrase this from another perspective.
What's the coolest TECO command sequence you can write in 49 characters?
I tested this set of 49 characters in the file: SDATE.TEC by executing
the command:
MUNG SDATE
under RT-11. I don't think this is the "coolest" command I can write,
but the 49 character
requirement makes any other possibility difficult.
The "$" characters are the <ESC> character.
ALL of the "J"s are filler characters that can be removed if you want to
count the <CR><LF>
characters as well at the end of each line.
I would have preferred to allow the user to include the current date on
the MUNG
command line, but this took too many characters.
If you feel that the <CR><LF> characters do not count, then leave them
in if the total
character count must be exactly 49 characters.
Line 1 has 17 characters
Line 2 has 16 characters
Line 3 has 16 characters
The file follows.
Jerome Fine
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^UDDATE 31-DEC-99
$JGDEWSDATE.COM$
ECJJJJJEGSDATE$$
In addition, removing the SIX "J" characters and substituting "ITECO$"
will also do nothing.
^UDDATE 31-DEC-99
$GDEWSDATE.COM$
ECITECO$EGSDATE$$
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