Add try command to 1991/dds/README.md + typo fixes

The question to ponder is what happens with files that are not BASIC
programs.

I also fixed some typos and made things (I hope) a bit clearer in the
alternate code section.
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@@ -53,6 +53,15 @@ For example, the author suggests trying:
./a.out
```
What happens if you give the program a C program like itself? Try:
```sh
./dds dds.c
```
You'll get errors yes but what does the generated file look like? What about
other types of files?
### Alternative code:
The alternative code, provided by Cody, allows this entry to work successfully
@@ -62,10 +71,11 @@ not messing with the `s` string which is quite complicated. For all Cody knows
even changing the length could break functionality and indeed the length would
have to be longer for this to work with clang.
How does it work? The code, which you will see in [dds.c](dds.c), `return system(q-6);`
equates to `return system("cc a.c");` but clang by default, at least in macOS,
has default -Werror and there were some warnings. This means that the
compilation failed with clang. In particular it would fail (at least with
How does it work? The code (which you will see in [dds.c](dds.c)) does a `return
system(q-6);` which equates to `return system("cc a.c");` but clang by default,
at least in macOS, has default -Werror and there were some warnings. This means
that the compilation failed with clang (because it didn't use `make` so no
[Makefile](Makefile) was used). In particular it would fail (at least with
`LANDER.BAS`) due to a return from `main()` without a return value and the use
of functions not yet declared.