Portable Self-Replicating C Contest

[Bob Hearn]

Oops... sorry.  Stupid mailer sent the wrong file.  One more time...

> Isn't it impossible for a C program to replicate itself if it doesn't access
> the operating system (other than printing to stdout)?  The question of whether
> it can be done while *using* the OS should come out of this contest so I'll
> wait patiently...
> 
> By the way, please forgive me if this all seems trivially true/false...but
> please enlighten me.

No, it's not impossible... the basic idea is to write a program that means
the equivalent of:

Write the following quotation, then write it again, quoted: "Write the 
following quotation, then write it again, quoted:"

Bob Hearn
hearn at claris.com