Add 2013/cable1/try.sh + format/typo checks

Rather than link to twitter.com there is a new image of the tweet
(screenshot).

The try.sh has a joke Easter egg in it based on said tweet.

Format/typo check README.md file.
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### Try:
```sh
./cable1 obama republican democrat
./cable1 nixon republican democrat
./cable1 bush republican democrat
./cable1 kennedy republican democrat
./cable1 lincoln republican democrat
./try.sh
```
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Humm .. maybe there is a hidden reason he is leaving the late Micro$oft? :-)
Why late? Because:
![tweet about M$ being dead](https://twitter.com/landonnoll/status/401582967123742720)
![tweet about M$ being dead](dead-ms-tweet.jpg)
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An important 2023 update about twitter:
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Use `republican` as the 2nd command-line argument, and `democrat` as the 3rd (or
equivalent strings of your choice).
### Why is this entry obfuscated/interesting?
The program looks up the name supplied on the command line against a list of
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- This program needs a little endian CPU to work properly.
### Compiler warnings
`clang` warns about a missing type specifier for `main()`, and that implicit
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# try.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 2013/cable1
#
# 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
make CC="$CC" all >/dev/null || exit 1
# clear screen after compilation so that only the entry is shown
clear
read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./cable1 obama republican democrat: "
echo 1>&2
./cable1 obama republican democrat
echo 1>&2
read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./cable1 nixon republican democrat: "
echo 1>&2
./cable1 nixon republican democrat
echo 1>&2
read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./cable1 bush republican democrat: "
echo 1>&2
./cable1 bush republican democrat
echo 1>&2
read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./cable1 kennedy republican democrat: "
echo 1>&2
./cable1 kennedy republican democrat
echo 1>&2
read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./cable1 lincoln republican democrat: "
echo 1>&2
./cable1 lincoln republican democrat
echo 1>&2
read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./cable1 roosevelt republican democrat: "
echo 1>&2
./cable1 roosevelt republican democrat
echo 1>&2
read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./cable1 fdr republican democrat: "
echo 1>&2
./cable1 fdr republican democrat
echo 1>&2
read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key: ./cable1 microsoft alive dead: "
echo 1>&2
./cable1 microsoft alive dead
echo 1>&2
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[try.alt.sh](2013/birken/try.alt.sh) script for the alt code.
## [2013/cable1](2013/cable1/cable1.c) ([README.md](2013/cable1/README.md]))
[Cody](#cody) added the [try.sh](2013/cable1/try.sh) script which also has an
joke Easter egg in it based on the judges' remarks.
## [2013/cable3](2013/cable3/cable3.c) ([README.md](2013/cable3/README.md]))
[Cody](#cody) fixed this to compile with modern systems. The problems were that