1. Re: Robot challenge - More Complex Maze Needed!
On Sun, 8 Nov 1998 15:37:50 -0500, Jeffrey Fielding <JJProg at CYBERBURY.NET>
wrote:
>>Are you saying one could shroud his *.ex file and it would still work
>>with unshrouded code?
I think it would be the .e file, actually.
>I think the code should be completely unshrouded. If it isn't, how can the
>person running it know whether the program is cheeting or whether it is a
>trojan horse (I would trust most of the stuff, but there was been a trojan
>horse (snake.exe) already, so how should we know whether or not it will
>happen again).
>
I have no problem running shrouded code - I have only a tiny
dos-only disk partition, no windows. Everything else is Linux.
If there's an ee-vile genius out there who can trash Linux via
dos, so what? I've still got the Linux CD's!
So I volunteer to run any contests and promptly report the
results - or post a warning, as seems necessary.
Irv
