diff --git a/1985/sicherman/README.md b/1985/sicherman/README.md
index 2abafd9b8..099594189 100644
--- a/1985/sicherman/README.md
+++ b/1985/sicherman/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Worst abuse of the C preprocessor
 
-Col. G. L. Sicherman  
+Col. G. L. Sicherman
 
 ## To build:
 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Use `sicherman.alt` as you would `sicherman`.
 
 This program abuses the C preprocessor so much that some `cpp`s fail to strip
 out all of the comments on the first pass!  If you were able to understand
-[Decot's](/winners.html#Dave_Decot) [entry in 1984](/1984/decot/decot.c), you
+[Decot's](/winners.html#Dave_Decot) [entry in 1984](/1984/decot/README.md), you
 will have a head start on this one.
 
 Be sure to run this program through lint!  If your lint works
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ on a line.  Now enter the letters 'n' through 'z'.  But to borrow a quote
 from Richard Stallman: If you think you understand what this code
 does, then you don't, so read it again!  Explain why:
 
-	./sicherman < sicherman.c | ./sicherman | diff - ./sicherman.c
+```sh
+./sicherman < sicherman.c | ./sicherman | diff - ./sicherman.c
+```
 
 results in diff reporting a difference on some machines.
 
diff --git a/thanks-for-fixes.md b/thanks-for-fixes.md
index d71a30fe3..43a171791 100644
--- a/thanks-for-fixes.md
+++ b/thanks-for-fixes.md
@@ -178,14 +178,15 @@ that Cody added. See the README.md for details.
 
 ## [1985/sicherman](1985/sicherman/sicherman.c) ([README.md](1985/sicherman/README.md]))
 
-Cody fixed this _very twisted entry_ to not require `-traditional-cpp`. He'd
-like to refer you to the original file in
-[sicherman.alt.c](1985/sicherman/sicherman.alt.c) and he suggests that you then compare it
-to [sicherman.c](1985/sicherman/sicherman.c) for some good old C-fashioned fun!
+Cody fixed this _very twisted entry_ to not require `-traditional-cpp`.  Fixing
+`-traditional-cpp` is, as noted earlier, very complicated, but Cody would like
+to refer you to the original file
+[sicherman.orig.c](1985/sicherman/sicherman.orig.c) and he suggests that you
+then compare it to [sicherman.c](1985/sicherman/sicherman.c) for some good old
+C-fashioned fun!
 
-Later on Cody improved the fix so that it looks much more like the original
-entry which can be found in
-[1985/sicherman/sicherman.orig.c](1985/sicherman/sicherman.orig.c).
+Later on Cody improved the fix so that it looks much more like the [original
+entry](1985/sicherman/sicherman.c).
 
 
 ## [1986/hague](1986/hague/hague.c) ([README.md](1986/hague/README.md]))