diff --git a/2000/tomx/.gitignore b/2000/tomx/.gitignore
index 6d96ee23d..0bec0a937 100644
--- a/2000/tomx/.gitignore
+++ b/2000/tomx/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 tomx
+tomx.alt
 mkentry
 tomx.orig
 prog.orig
diff --git a/2000/tomx/Makefile b/2000/tomx/Makefile
index 31eeb183f..c5a8f1658 100644
--- a/2000/tomx/Makefile
+++ b/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}
diff --git a/2000/tomx/README.md b/2000/tomx/README.md
index 206280726..01e431be5 100644
--- a/2000/tomx/README.md
+++ b/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.
 
diff --git a/2000/tomx/tomx.alt.c b/2000/tomx/tomx.alt.c
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..ca751d090
--- /dev/null
+++ b/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 $(PROG)
+
+.PHONY: /* true clean */
+#undef   true
+#include "mkentry.c"
diff --git a/2000/tomx/tomx.c b/2000/tomx/tomx.c
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
diff --git a/2000/tomx/try.alt.sh b/2000/tomx/try.alt.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..1d8f730d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/2000/tomx/try.alt.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# 
+# try.sh - script to show 2000/tomx
+
+echo "Using tomx.alt.c to compile mkentry.c directly:" 1>&2
+echo "$ 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
diff --git a/2000/tomx/try.sh b/2000/tomx/try.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..db719b5b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/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
diff --git a/thanks-for-fixes.md b/thanks-for-fixes.md
index ca6e039e4..b37f0cc3e 100644
--- a/thanks-for-fixes.md
+++ b/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