geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning) (03/23/91)
In article <1991Mar21.190907.9789@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz) writes: > Here's a version which doesn't use excessively cute tricks, assume that > certain characters have fixed numeric values, or such. In other words, > it is an HONEST self-printing program. It is also a self-starter, in > that there are really two programs involved. The first one writes the > second one, based on a shell, which is the actual self-printing > program. Both "makeself.c" and "selfstart.c" forgot to end with "return 0;" so that they would return a success status to the invoker (and thus work reliably with make). A neat package, especially since it's so easily extensible! -- Geoff Kuenning geoff@la.locus.com geoff@ITcorp.com