Re: Forget uMIILs -- why not an 'obfuscate' tool for C instead?

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From: Cliff Olling
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1988 00:18

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I think I saw something that was run through this program :-) while working 
with a Data General Nova about 10 years ago.  The source was written in an
interpreted BASIC with lots of DG-specific extensions (there was no compiled
BASIC for that machine).  I believe that the program was a payroll package of
about 20k lines or so.  The interesting thing about the source was that all 
the variable names were mixtures of "O"'s (capitol-o) and "0"'s (zeros).  It 
certainly made for confusing reading.  Luckily :-), once the program was 
loaded, there were handy tools which could be (mis-)used to dis-ambiguate(sp?)
the variable naming.
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Clifford Olling, olling@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, (cornell!plab!olling)
Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell University

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From: olling@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Cliff Olling)
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Subject: Re: Forget uMIILs -- why not an 'obfuscate' tool for C instead?
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Date: 25 Oct 88 00:18:33 GMT
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