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This is COBF - The C/C++ Sourcecode Obfuscator/Shrouder
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Abstract:

COBF (aka C-Obfuscator) is a program which manipulates C or C++ sourcefiles
in a way that they aren't readable by human beings; but they remain
compilable.

The benefit of COBF lies in the distribution of  programs (freeware,
shareware, commercial software etc.):
The distribution as a executable binary is often too inflexible (especially
for Unix or Windows NT, because it is normally not feasible to support all
possible platforms); on the other side one might not give away the sourcecode
(e. g. it looks poor [badly commented, Spaghetti code], or you just want to
prevent plagiarism).

Here COBF can play an important role: It removes all comments and sourcecode
formattings and renames all variable and function identifiers.

See files.txt for a complete list of the files provided with the cobf zip archive!
See doc/ for the COBF manual!

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Author:

Bernhard Baier
email:  bernhard.baier@gmx.net
WWW:    http://home.arcor.de/bernhard.baier


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Copyright Notice:

See file copyright.txt in the same directory