diff --git a/1995/garry/README.md b/1995/garry/README.md
index 635806c93..bc142e2db 100644
--- a/1995/garry/README.md
+++ b/1995/garry/README.md
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ This program is a file filter, designed to do environment-expansion and
 incorporating the ability to create binary from escaped data in the
 environment variables.
 
-The calling syntax is pretty simple, just use it with stdio-redirection
+The calling syntax is pretty simple, just use it with `stdio`-redirection
 or inside pipelines, e.g.:
 
 ```sh
@@ -79,10 +79,12 @@ cat all_my_files/* | ./garry | lp
 
 The syntax of the conversion of the input file is as follows: To include the
 value of an environment variable in the output file, place the name of the
-variable between "$"-signs in the input, e.g.:
+variable between `$`-signs in the input, e.g.:
 
-	My Home-Directory is: $HOME$
-	I'm using the path: $PATH$
+```
+My Home-Directory is: $HOME$
+I'm using the path: $PATH$
+```
 
 Unknown Env-variables or malformed expressions are ignored and kept intact.
 
diff --git a/1995/garry/garry.alt.test.sh b/1995/garry/garry.alt.test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..c6f980c80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/1995/garry/garry.alt.test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+#
+# garry.alt.test.sh - example of how to use garry.alt
+
+EXAMPLEON="\33\133\61\73\67\155"
+EXAMPLEOFF="\33\133\155"
+DOLLAR="$"
+export EXAMPLEON EXAMPLEOFF DOLLAR
+
+# make sure alt code is built, first
+make alt || exit 1
+
+./garry.alt <garry.data
diff --git a/1995/heathbar/README.md b/1995/heathbar/README.md
index a1110fbee..9488f78d3 100644
--- a/1995/heathbar/README.md
+++ b/1995/heathbar/README.md
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ end, I made three critical observations:
 
 1. If there's one thing computers are good at, it's math.
 2. Simple operations take less time than complicated ones.
-3. Every C program seems to contain the word "main".
+3. Every C program seems to contain the word `main`.
 
 Based on #1, I knew that the Fastest Program had to be one that
 performed addition. From #2, I reasoned that it ought to directly
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ high-level, fuzzy-logic, artificial-intelligence, neural-net,
 client-server, object-oriented abstractions like the C language "+"
 operator. And it was obvious from #3 that the program should
 resemble, as closely as possible, a long sequence of the familiar
-word "main" repeated over and over, so the computer would be
+word `main` repeated over and over, so the computer would be
 comfortable running the program and wouldn't get distracted dealing
 with unfamiliar variable names.