++diotalevi! Stunning
I just have to answer and give a few guesses why this works!

• close STDERR to get rid of the compiler output (Syntax OK)
• pipe STDOUT (the compiler-output) to a call of the script itself, this time with a parameter (so the if-test in the begin block is true this time).
• generate strings representing 8bit binaries (== bytes)
• pack the binaries into strings (i.e. chars)
• transliterate these length-1 strings using a very obfuscated tr call and print them.

What I don't understand is, if I got it right in the first place, how the hell did you construct those a(...) calls to get the needed compiler output?
So the question is: Am I right with my guesses, or did I fall prey to your obfuscation skills?

regards,
tomte

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