Update author info for Daniel Fischer#252
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And rebuild authors.html and location.html.
My guess is that this will not be a problem. Note however that this might not be merged until after both judging of IOCCC29 is complete and the winners have been announced. That's not a certainty but that's quite likely as the judges are (mostly) in a 'radio silence' (as they say) right now (minus brief updates about judging). I love your entry btw! |
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I'm happy that you like it. :) This is of course not an urgent change. I just randomly realized today that the country was wrong, and then I found out that I can fix it myself. |
Oh it's a LOT of fun! How you concealed the strings is interesting (I haven't tried to figure it out and it was not immediately obvious). I did however make a minor fix for modern systems and to make it look as much like the original. There's a fun way to 'beat' the puzzle every time. You probably already know it but if you do... echo abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz | ./dfit solves it without any work. Cheating of course but it's fun to see things like that. I guess you knew it though (or if not you probably guessed)? I also figured out how to cheat at 1991/westley.
Yes but you missed the entry index.html file too. That also has the country. |
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Yes, I saw the fixes! They made me happy :) I think the cheat is how I tested it. I don't really remember, it's a long time ago. Btw., for all the "i love unix" in there (that you fixed the readability of), I actually wrote this on a 68k Mac using Metrowerks CodeWarrior. I remember being happy when it actually worked on BSD too. Thanks for the note about the entry index.html, I updated it too now. |
I am happy to hear that!
That makes sense to me. I have done similar in some of my entries too.
I love unix also but I'm writing this on a MacBook Pro M4 Max. Landon also uses Apple (and linux). In the early 2000s I went from BSD (previously was using SunOS) to linux due to a project of mine and BSD's libc being sorely behind. I've used vim for years but before that just vi. I've never used an IDE. What do you use nowadays? I haven't used any strictly BSD since maybe 2002 or 2003 at the latest but mostly I use macOS (ssh into the server when need linux).
I should have said: it's done by editing the JSON file and then regenerating the file. Not sure if you did that? I can barely see right now to check I'm afraid. |
Privately, it's been Mac and Linux for a long time now. The last time I used something else was when I had an old Sun Ultra in the early 2000's that my employer at the time didn't need anymore (I liked the UNIX layout Sun keyboards). After that I actually worked at Sun for a while, but the old commercial UNIXes were more or less already all on the way out by then.
I edited the author json in my original patch, and for the second patch I ran the script that updates the entry index.html. Did I miss something in the entry json that needs updating too? |
I have a fondness for SunOS. A long time mate of mine has some SPARCStations but I don't think he's booted them for years. I remember back in the telnet days we would do things over telnet. Kind of crazy to think about! At the same time I was using BSD locally. Nonetheless SunOS/Solaris is of the past and not exactly modern. I don't how the 'open' version is. Thanks for answering.
Probably not. As I recall the way we have it designed is it gets that from the author JSON file. As long as the html file now shows the country then everything should be fine I think. |
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This commit fixes the country and updates other author info for Daniel Fischer (me).
If you need verification, unfortunately the e-mail address and the company listed in the old df.hint file no longer exist. But if you send snail mail to the home address, my mother will probably forward it to me. :)