Add alt code, scripts + format fixes in 2000/tomx

The alt code is based on the author's remarks with a fix so that it
actually works (I presume it once did work but it no longer did). This
compiles mkentry.c and running tomx.alt ends up running mkentry!

The try.sh script shows the different ways tomx.c can be used: as a
script, as a compiled file and as a Makefile. 'tomx.c' as a shell script
compiles itself and as a Makefile it does the same thing!

The try.alt.sh does more or less the same thing as try.sh but it works
for the alt code which works with mkentry.c (see above).

Format/typo fix README.md.

Although the try.sh and try.alt.sh script both chmod +x the source code
the code here in the repo is now +x as well because it can be used as a
script and a Makefile as well as compiled as C.

I believe this completes the review of 2000/tomx.

2000/tomx/.gitignore

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 tomx
+tomx.alt
 mkentry
 tomx.orig
 prog.orig

2000/tomx/Makefile

@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ OBJ= ${PROG}.o
 DATA=
 TARGET= ${PROG}
 #
-ALT_OBJ=
-ALT_TARGET=
+ALT_OBJ= ${PROG}.alt.o
+ALT_TARGET= ${PROG}.alt
 
 
 #################
@@ -135,6 +135,9 @@ ${PROG}: ${PROG}.c
 alt: data ${ALT_TARGET}
 	@${TRUE}
 
+${PROG}.alt: ${PROG}.alt.c
+	${CC} ${CFLAGS} $< -o $@ ${LDFLAGS}
+
 # data files
 #
 data: ${DATA}

2000/tomx/README.md

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
 make
 ```
 
+There is an alternate version that compiles [mkentry.c](mkentry.c). See
+[alternate code](#alternate-code).
+
 
 ## To use:
 
@@ -15,18 +18,29 @@ make
 ### Try:
 
 ```sh
-rm -f ./tomx
-chmod +x ./tomx.c
-./tomx.c
-./tomx
+./try.sh
 ```
 
-as well as:
+
+## Alternate code:
+
+This alternate code is based on the author's remarks with a slight fix so that
+it will do what it once did, compile and run [mkentry.c](mkentry.c). You can use
+it in a similar way as [tomx.c](tomx.c), both executing the source file and
+using it as a Makefile and running the code ends up running `mkentry`.
+
+
+### Alternate build:
 
 ```sh
-rm -f ./tomx
-make -f tomx.c
-./tomx
+make alt
+```
+
+
+### Alternate try:
+
+```sh
+./try.alt.sh
 ```
 
 
@@ -45,14 +59,15 @@ changes don't change the shell code or the Makefile.
 
 This program works as a C source file, a Makefile and also as a shell
 (`/bin/sh`) script. But unlike some other multi-language programs, this one is
-NOT meant to print "Hello, world" in all 3 cases (At least in the true sense
-;-)). The C, make and shell code build upon each other to create a C program (?)
+NOT meant to print `Hello, world` in all 3 cases (At least in the true sense
+;-)). The C, Makefile and shell code build upon each other to create a C program (?)
 which when executed as a shell script will compile itself through the C compiler
 using a Makefile! - Pretty useful, Eh?
 
 Probably, this is the first entry ever to fully satisfy Rule #1 ("Your entry
 must be a complete program") in the strictest sense;-)
 
+
 ### Top 5 reasons (IMHO) why this code is an entry for IOCCC
 
 1. A glance at the source itself will tell you that most of the
@@ -67,7 +82,7 @@ C (But again, there was NO obfuscated make/shscript contest)
 obfuscation should be in C and not elsewhere???. Mmmmm...).
 
 3. Extending Argument #2... Obfuscation done in the C code
-(comments?) create obfuscated code for the other 2 languages.
+(comments?) creates obfuscated code for the other 2 languages.
 This opens new possibilities to be explored in depth in future
 `IOCCC`s.
 

2000/tomx/tomx.alt.c

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+#define  true
+
+true /*:all
+
+CC=cc
+PROG=mkentry
+
+false :
+	make -f $0 $1
+	exit 0
+
+all: $(PROG)
+
+%:%.c
+	$(CC) $< -o $@
+
+clean:
+	rm $(PROG)
+
+.PHONY: /* true clean */
+#undef   true
+#include "mkentry.c"

2000/tomx/try.alt.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# 
+# try.sh - script to show 2000/tomx
+
+echo "Using tomx.alt.c to compile mkentry.c directly:" 1>&2
+echo "$ chmod +x tomx.alt.c" 1>&2
+chmod +x tomx.alt.c
+echo "$ rm -f mkentry" 1>&2
+rm -f mkentry
+echo "$ ./tomx.alt.c" 1>&2
+./tomx.alt.c
+echo 1>&2
+
+echo "Using tomx.alt.c as a Makefile to compile mkentry.c:" 1>&2
+echo "$ rm -f mkentry"
+rm mkentry
+echo "$ make -f tomx.alt.c" 1>&2
+make -f tomx.alt.c
+echo 1>&2
+
+echo "Running mkentry via tomx.alt:" 1>&2
+echo "$ ./tomx.alt" 1>&2
+./tomx.alt

2000/tomx/try.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# 
+# try.sh - script to show 2000/tomx
+
+if [[ ! -f "tomx" || ! -e "tomx" ]]; then
+    echo "Compiling tomx.c:" 1>&2
+    make all || exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "Running tomx:" 1>&2
+echo "$ ./tomx" 1>&2
+./tomx
+echo 1>&2
+
+echo "Using source code to compile tomx.c: " 1>&2
+echo "$ rm -f tomx" 1>&2
+rm -f tomx
+echo "$ chmod +x tomx.c" 1>&2
+chmod +x tomx.c
+echo "$ ./tomx.c" 1>&2
+./tomx.c
+echo "Running tomx again:" 1>&2
+echo "$ ./tomx" 1>&2
+./tomx
+
+echo 1>&2
+echo "Using tomx.c as a Makefile:" 1>&2
+echo "$ rm -f tomx" 1>&2
+rm -f tomx
+echo "$ make -f tomx.c" 1>&2
+make -f tomx.c
+echo "Running tomx again:" 1>&2
+echo "$ ./tomx"
+./tomx

thanks-for-fixes.md

@@ -2248,7 +2248,8 @@ commands that we recommended.
 
 Cody changed this entry to use `fgets()` instead of `gets()` to make it safer
 and to prevent annoying warnings from showing up at compiling, linking and/or
-runtime, the latter interspersed with the output of the program.
+runtime, the latter interspersed with the output of the program. This involved
+changing the `K` arg to `gets(3)` to `&K` in `fgets(3)`.
 
 Cody later improved the fix to use `gets()` by redefining `gets()` so that the
 code looks like before.
@@ -2330,6 +2331,17 @@ the curses and the SDL versions as Cody does not have a DOS system to test the
 other version in.
 
 
+## [2000/tomx](2000/tomx/tomx.c) ([README.md](2000/tomx/README.md]))
+
+Cody added the [alt code](2000/tomx/README.md#alternate-code) based on the
+author's remarks with a fix for modern systems and he also added the two
+scripts, [try.sh](2000/tomx/try.sh) and [try.alt.sh](2000/tomx/try.alt.sh) for
+the main code and the alt code respectively.
+
+And although the scripts do `chmod +x` on the source code (see the README.md for
+details) the source code is now executable by default.
+
+
 ## [2001/anonymous](2001/anonymous/anonymous.c) ([README.md](2001/anonymous/README.md]))
 
 Cody fixed both the supplementary program and the program itself (both of which