diff --git a/1988/spinellis/try.alt.sh b/1988/spinellis/try.alt.sh
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-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-#
-# try.alt.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 1988/spinellis alt code
-#
-
-# make sure CC is set so that when we do make CC="$CC" it isn't empty. Doing it
-# this way allows us to have the user specify a different compiler in an easy
-# way.
-if [[ -z "$CC" ]]; then
-    CC="cc"
-fi
-
-# clear screen after compilation so that only the entry is shown
-clear
-
-echo "$ cat input.txt" 1>&2
-cat input.txt
-
-echo "$ cc -Wno-error spinellis.alt.c -o spinellis.alt && ./spinellis.alt < input.txt"
-cc -Wno-error spinellis.alt.c -o spinellis.alt && ./spinellis.alt < input.txt
-echo "$ ./spinellis.alt" 1>&2
-./spinellis.alt
-
-echo 1>&2
-
-echo "$ cat input2.txt" 1>&2
-cat input2.txt
-echo "$ cc -Wno-error spinellis.c -o spinellis.alt && ./spinellis" 1>&2
-cc -Wno-error spinellis.alt.c -o spinellis.alt && ./spinellis.alt < input2.txt
-echo "$ ./spinellis.alt" 1>&2
-./spinellis.alt
diff --git a/1988/spinellis/try.sh b/1988/spinellis/try.sh
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-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-#
-# try.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 1988/spinellis
-#
-
-# make sure CC is set so that when we do make CC="$CC" it isn't empty. Doing it
-# this way allows us to have the user specify a different compiler in an easy
-# way.
-if [[ -z "$CC" ]]; then
-    CC="cc"
-fi
-
-# clear screen after compilation so that only the entry is shown
-clear
-
-echo "$ cat input.txt" 1>&2
-cat input.txt
-
-echo "$ cc spinellis.c -o spinellis < input.txt && ./spinellis" 1>&2
-cc spinellis.c -o spinellis < input.txt && ./spinellis
-
-echo 1>&2
-
-echo "$ cat input2.txt" 1>&2
-cat input2.txt
-echo "$ cc spinellis.c -o spinellis < input2.txt && ./spinellis" 1>&2
-cc spinellis.c -o spinellis < input2.txt && ./spinellis