contest when you [SNIP] i did brother... check the first mail when i asked u guys abt obfuscation. i did tell u abt the contest in that mail. curiosity (or to take part But otherwise what I [SNIP] i hadnt heard of obfuscation before i heard of the comptt. now how do i get curiosity in something i never heard of. plus if u are thinking that i picked up some code directly from the mailing list and reproduced it there, u r wrong. the code came up on the list a day after the contest. if i had done that i wud have got the 1st prize , as the guy who did get the 1st prize did very similar things to those that were dicussed on the mail. what i did was somethiong diff.... i #defined & re #defined functions like scanf, printf, for , while etc etc as coke, pepsi, chicken, paneer etc etc.and to do a simple things like printing a msg ,i jumped 4 functions and did that. my code was supposed to take a string from a user and print it char by char. i had 100 lines of code for such a simple thing. hope matters are cleared now and HOPE U R CONVINCED THAT EVERY THING WAS /FAIR/... gurpreet _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers