Add 1992/ant/try.sh

If you like ants there are now 1992 of them here to try out (whatever
that means :-) ).

Some typos in the test Makefile were also fixed (just those that I saw
as the command was scrolling by - I didn't look at the whole file).

1992/ant/README.md

@@ -9,24 +9,18 @@ make all
 
 ```sh
 ./ant Makefile
+
+./ant Makefile rule
 ```
 
-where `Makefile` is a Makefile to use.
+where `Makefile` is a Makefile to use and `rule` is an optional rule to use.
 
 
 ### Try:
 
-First build the tool itself with our Makefile:
 
 ```sh
-./ant Makefile am
+./try.sh
-```
-
-Now use `am` to do some things:
-
-```sh
-./am Makefile am_clobber	# clobber everything except am
-./am ant.test.mk		# run the test Makefile with am
 ```
 
 

1992/ant/ant.test.mk

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ TEXT_2	= test macro split \
 	three lines
 TEXT_3	= test dollar macro '$$'
 TEXT_4	= test dollar again "$$(TEXT_1)"
-TEXT_5	=	imbeded macro '$(TEXT_1)'
+TEXT_5	=	embedded macro '$(TEXT_1)'
 
 redefine : r1 r2 r3 r4 r5 
 
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ leaf.5 :
 
 #  Command lines split across lines.
 split.cmd:
-	echo Try spliting command \
+	echo Try splitting command \
 		lines across more \
 	than one line.
 

1992/ant/try.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# try.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 1992/ant
+#
+
+# 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="$CC" all >/dev/null || exit 1
+
+# clear screen after compilation so that only the entry is shown
+clear
+
+echo "$ ./ant Makefile am    # build the tool itself" 1>&2
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./ant Makefile am: "
+echo 1>&2
+./ant Makefile am
+echo 1>&2
+
+echo "$ ./am Makefile am_clobber    # clobber everything except am" 1>&2
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to continue: "
+echo 1>&2
+./am Makefile am_clobber	# clobber everything except am
+echo 1>&2
+
+echo "$ ./am ant.test.mk    # run the test Makefile with am" 1>&2
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to continue: "
+echo 1>&2
+./am ant.test.mk		# run the test Makefile with am

thanks-for-help.md

@@ -1505,7 +1505,7 @@ return void.
 [Cody](#cody) fixed the Makefile so that the program will actually work with it (or at
 least the rule to clobber files and link `am` to `ant`). The issue was that the
 variables in the Makefile could not be evaluated in the same way as it's not as
-feature-rich as other implementations of `make`. Thus the use of `${RM}` and
+feature-rich as other implementations of `make(1)`. Thus the use of `${RM}` and
 `${CP}` were in the respective rules changed to `rm` and `cp`, for two examples.
 A new rule had to be added as well. The variable situation might be because they
 are obtained from the root variable Makefile `var.mk` via `include` which the
@@ -1516,7 +1516,10 @@ Cody also fixed another problem, unrelated, in the Makefile with the `.PHONY`
 rule where a line was not ended with a `\` but should have been.
 
 The author stated that in some systems like DOS with Turbo C, it might be
-necessary to include `time.h` so Cody did this as well.
+necessary to include `time.h` so Cody did this as well as this exists in other
+systems too.
+
+Cody also added the [try.sh](/1992/ant/try.sh) script.
 
 
 ## <a name="1992_buzzard.1"></a>[1992/buzzard.1](/1992/buzzard.1/buzzard.1.c) ([README.md](/1992/buzzard.1/README.md))