Add try scripts to 1992/albert

1992/albert/README.md

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ For more detailed information see [1992 albert in bugs.md](/bugs.md#1992-albert)
 ### Try:
 
 ```sh
-./albert 1234567890123456789
+./try.sh
 ```
 
 
@@ -74,6 +74,12 @@ make alt
 Use `albert.alt` as you would `albert` above.
 
 
+### Alternate try:
+
+```sh
+./try.alt.sh
+```
+
 ## Judges' remarks:
 
 We were impressed with the speed at which it was able to factor

1992/albert/try.alt.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# try.alt.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 1992/albert alt code
+#
+
+# 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" alt >/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: ./albert.alt 1234567890123456789: "
+echo 1>&2
+./albert.alt 1234567890123456789
+echo 1>&2
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./albert.alt 12345678987654321: "
+echo 1>&2
+./albert.alt 12345678987654321
+echo 1>&2
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./albert.alt 42: "
+echo 1>&2
+./albert.alt 42
+echo 1>&2
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./albert.alt 4242424242: "
+echo 1>&2
+./albert.alt 4242424242
+echo 1>&2
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./albert.alt 10000000001: "
+echo 1>&2
+./albert.alt 10000000001
+echo 1>&2

1992/albert/try.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# try.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 1992/albert
+#
+
+# 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: ./albert 1234567890123456789: "
+echo 1>&2
+./albert 1234567890123456789
+echo 1>&2
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./albert 12345678987654321: "
+echo 1>&2
+./albert 12345678987654321
+echo 1>&2
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./albert 42: "
+echo 1>&2
+./albert 42
+echo 1>&2
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./albert 4242424242: "
+echo 1>&2
+./albert 4242424242
+echo 1>&2

thanks-for-help.md

@@ -1496,8 +1496,12 @@ the additional tools.
 applied to the code, provided as the alt code as that version is not obfuscated.
 Thus Cody's fix applies to the original entry. The problems were that `malloc.h`
 is not the correct header file now (at least in some systems?) and a non-void
-(implicit int) function returning without a value. That function was changed to
+(implicit `int`) function returning without a value. That function was changed to
-return void.
+return `void`.
+
+Cody also added the [try.sh](/1992/albert/try.sh) and
+[try.alt.sh](/1992/albert/try.alt.sh) scripts that correspond to the entry and
+the alt code.
 
 
 ## <a name="1992_ant"></a>[1992/ant](/1992/ant/ant.c) ([README.md](/1992/ant/README.md]))