MSDEV.EXE Satan Conspiracy

[Warren Togami]

My latest CS programming homework was to code a Huffman compression
algorithm that analyzes itself and spits out data about the output.

[warren at vegeta 5]# ./huffman msdev.exe
File name: msdev.exe
255     153329    0     53295   103(g)  3208    119(w)  2744
141     2194     97(a)  1553     15     1523    142     1419
117(u)  1394    205     1339    240     1288     87(W)  1252
136     1179    104(h)  1143     85(U)  1097    128     1097
(SKIP A FEW HUNDRED LINES)
f6      90      1101
4f(O)   88      1100
13      349     10000010
eb      702     1000000
 0      53295   0
Total bytes = 270406.  Average bits/character = 3.007781.
Unique bytes = 252.
Compressed File length = 813322 (101666 bytes)

xxx666 bytes in the resulting compressed file.

666 from MSDEV.EXE, an executable binary from Microsoft Visual Studio.

Coincidence?  I think not.

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I need some sleep...