Merge pull request #46 from xexyl/1985

1985/applin/README.md

@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@ Jack Applin [with help from Robert Heckendorn]
 
         make all
 
-## Try:
-
+## To run:
 
 	./applin
 

1985/august/README.md

@@ -7,11 +7,19 @@ Lennart Augustsson
 
         make all
 
+## To run:
+
+	./august
 
 ## Try:
 
 
-	./august
+	./august | head -n 10
+
+If you have the `primes(6)` tool (sometimes part of BSD Games) you can see
+what of the output in the first N (say 15) lines are primes:
+
+	while read -r n ; do primes "$n" $((n + 1)) ; done < <((./august | head -n 15 ))
 
 
 ## Judges' comments:

1985/lycklama/README.md

@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ Ed Lycklama
 
         make all
 
-NOTE: This entry uses non-standard args to main() that do not work with modern compilers.
 
+## To run:
+
+	./lycklama < some_file
 
 ## Try:
 

1985/shapiro/README.md

@@ -16,13 +16,13 @@ Carl Shapiro
 
 As submitted, this program was 3 lines (2 of defines and 1 of code).
 To make news & mail happy we split the last line into 7. The file
-[shapiro.orig.c](shapiro.orig.c) is the original version.
+[shapiro.alt.c](shapiro.alt.c) is the original version.
 
 
 This program was selected for the 1987 t-shirt collection.
 
 We found this program is be simply a**maze**ing! Run this program without
-arguments and notice the output.
+arguments and notice the output. 
 
 
 Copyright (c) 1985, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel.

1985/sicherman/Makefile

@@ -182,8 +182,7 @@ all: ${DATA} ${TARGET}
 	supernova deep_magic magic charon pluto
 
 ${PROG}: ${PROG}.c
-	@echo "NOTE: This entry will not compile when using clang because it does not support"
-	@echo "      -traditional-cpp but it should compile with gcc."
+	@echo "NOTE: NOTE: this entry requires a compiler that supports -traditional-cpp."
 	${CC} ${CFLAGS} $< -o $@ ${LIBS}
 
 # alternative executable

1985/sicherman/README.md

@@ -6,13 +6,12 @@ Col. G. L. Sicherman
 
         make all
 
-NOTE: This entry uses non-standard args to main() that do not work with modern compilers.
+NOTE: This entry requires a compiler that support `-traditional-cpp`.
 
-NOTE: This entry requires a non-standard K&R C compiler to compile.
 
 ## Judges' comments:
 
-This program abuses the C preprocessor so much that some /lib/cpp's fail to
+This program abuses the C preprocessor so much that some /lib/cpp fail to
 strip out all of the comments on the first pass!  If you were able to
 understand Decot's entry in 1984, you will have a head start on this
 one.
@@ -21,8 +20,8 @@ Be sure to run this program through lint!  If your lint works
 correctly, it should warn you that the argument 'Manual' isn't used.
 Like the program says, what's that mean?
 
-Run the program without arguments and enter the letters 'a' thru 'm'
-on a line.  Now enter the letters 'n' thru 'z'.  But to borrow a quote
+Run the program without arguments and enter the letters 'a' through 'm'
+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: