Best one liner: <...!{decvax|akgua}!ucf-cs!vanb> David Van Brackle David Van Brackle Department of Computer Science University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida 32816 USA Judges notes: This program computes all proper subsets of the set of arguments passed to it. Each subset is printed with one element on each line, followed by a line of ten dashes. Try: vanb the rug gary lent vanb unix is better than os/2 Selected notes from the author: The program has the following charming and possibly non-portable features: * It has no local or global variables, only the command-line parameters. * It calls main recursively. * It alters the command-line parameters. * It uses the fact that if the high bit is set in a character variable, the value is negative. Copyright (c) 1989, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel. All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.