Fixes in 1998 html files

This includes some notices to those who wish for a greater challenge.

In the 1998/schweikh3 the man page (and its copy to demonstrate the
entry) have been updated slightly but only in comment (move 'or' from
the command suggested to render it in text to its own line before the
next command also in comment).

The bugs file was updated for an entry or two.
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@@ -472,6 +472,10 @@ compiler error:</p>
<pre><code> #line 10 ONE(O(1,1,2,6,0,6))</code></pre>
<p>and now it works with both clang and gcc.</p>
<h2 id="authors-remarks">Author’s remarks:</h2>
<h3 id="notice-to-those-who-wish-for-a-greater-challenge">NOTICE to those who wish for a greater challenge:</h3>
<p><strong>If you want a greater challenge, don’t read any further</strong>:
just try to understand the program via the source.</p>
<p>If you get stuck, come back and read below for additional hints and information.</p>
<h3 id="what-this-program-does">What this program does</h3>
<p>My entry is a <code>yarng</code>, which stands for, you guessed it, yet another
random number generator, and is pronounced ‘yawn’ due to its
@@ -496,7 +500,7 @@ different values? How long would you need for an empirical test?</p>
10011</code></pre>
<h3 id="why-i-think-this-is-obfuscated">Why I think this is obfuscated</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>Ever seen a ‘do for … while’ loop?</p></li>
<li><p>Ever seen a <code>do for ... while</code> loop?</p></li>
<li><p>I avoided <code>int</code> like the plague. Instead I used storage class specifiers
(<code>register</code>, <code>auto</code>) to get implicit <code>int</code>. The Standard allows implicit <code>int</code> even in
casts as you can see in <code>(void(*)(register))main</code>. Where implicit <code>int</code> is