Most useful obfuscation

Walter Bright

Judges' comments:

Compile this program and give filenames as arguments. For example try:

bright bright.c
bright bright

Mr. Bright exploits the c pre-processor, similar variables and excessive shifting to obfuscate an otherwise useful binary display program. This gives you a small example of what it is like to maintain the Bourne shell! :-}

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