A Self-Printing C Program

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Since I haven't seen any rules for self-printing C programs
other than the implicit one that they should print out their
own source, how about the following (not necessarily the
shortest possible):

	main ()
	{
	system ( "cat /e2/aark/bin/source/selfprint.c" );
	}

where the above text is, of course, stored in the file
/e2/aark/bin/source/selfprint.c.  This works on ihuxe,
which runs USG 4.0 UN*X.

No doubt, since this seems too simple, this violates some
as-yet-unstated rules for self-printing C programs.

Alan R. Kaminsky
Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL
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