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Anthony Howe Snert 42 av. Isola Bella 06400 Cannes, France achowe@snert.com

Judges' comments

This little mynx will give any Fiery Fox a run for its money. A nice complement to last years winning hibachi. The judges double dare any eager Obfuscationalists to submit the missing pieces to get a functioning LAMP stack.

To build

    cc -O2 -o mynx mynx.c

If this does not work for you, use the enclosed configure script.

Try

    mynx http://www.ioccc.org/

Author's comments

I was rather impressed by last year's mini web server. So much so that it inspired me to try my hand at writing the client side complement.

A typical build would be command would be:

    $ gcc -omynx mynx.c

While some others like to be a little different:

    $ gcc -omynx mynx.c -lnsl -lsocket

I even managed to figure out a basic configure script, given last year's example, which is kinda of useful when you consider how many OSes put all the network functions in a variety of places. So a simpler build command sequence would be:

    $ ./configure
    $ make

After which, the rest of the documentation can be read by saying:

    $ mynx manual.html

Manifest:

    mynx.c
    makefile                pre-built generic Un*x
    README.TXT
    manual.html
    makefile.in             makefile template
    entities.txt            ISO 8859-1 entites
    configure.in            configure script description
    configure               pre-built configure script