Update 1987 winning entries' README.md files

Format and typo fixes.
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[Cody Boone Ferguson](/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson) made this safer by
using `fgets()` instead of `gets()`. This prevents a potentially alarming
warning at linking or runtime.
using `fgets()` instead of `gets()`. This prevents an annoying and potentially
alarming warning at compiling, linking or runtime.
## Try:
./wall | bc | ./wall
```sh
./wall | bc | ./wall
```
and input the following:
x*x
c^2
m*m
```
x*x
c^2
m*m
# can you figure out what this does?
500
# can you figure out what this does?
500
```
### Also try:
./wall | bc
```sh
./wall | bc
./wall | cat
./wall | cat
```
and enter some input like:
x*x
2^x
quit # for the cat version
```
x*x
2^x
quit # for the cat version
```
## Judges' remarks:
@@ -64,12 +73,12 @@ be directly called. Even so, these pointers to functions are being
used as an argument to signal. Can you determine why this is being
done and how it is being exploited?
Some compilers complained about this file, so we changed: '=++I' to '= ++I'.
Some compilers complained about this file, so we changed: `=++I` to `= ++I`.
## Author's remarks:
No comments were provided by the author.
No remarks were provided by the author.
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