Added 1992/imc/try.sh

1992/imc/README.md

@@ -15,6 +15,15 @@ make all
 ```
 
 
+## Try:
+
+To see a number of options and configurations:
+
+```sh
+./try.sh
+```
+
+
 ## Judges' remarks:
 
 The program is more interesting to run on workstations that can make use of a

1992/imc/try.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# try.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 1992/imc
+#
+
+# 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="$CC" all >/dev/null || exit 1
+
+# clear screen after compilation so that only the entry is shown
+clear
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./imc -text: "
+echo 1>&2
+./imc -text
+echo 1>&2
+
+echo "$ ./imc -text -size 40 40 -limit 256 -julia 0.5 -0.5"
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to continue (space = next page, q = quit): "
+echo 1>&2
+./imc -text -size 40 40 -limit 256 -julia 0.5 -0.5 | less -rEXF
+
+echo "$ ./imc -text -size 40 40 -limit 1024 -julia 2 -2.5"
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to continue (space = next page, q = quit): "
+echo 1>&2
+./imc -text -size 40 40 -limit 1024 -julia 2 -2.5 | less -rEXF
+
+echo "$ ./imc -text -size 40 40 -limit 1024 -centre 1 2 -julia 2 -2.5"
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to continue (space = next page, q = quit): "
+echo 1>&2
+./imc -text -size 40 40 -limit 1024 -centre 1 2 -julia 2 -2.5 | less -rEXF
+
+echo "$ ./imc -text -size 40 40 -limit 256"
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to continue (space = next page, q = quit): "
+echo 1>&2
+./imc -text -size 40 40 -limit 256 | less -rEXF
+
+echo "$ ./imc -text -size 40 40 -limit 1024"
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to continue (space = next page, q = quit): "
+echo 1>&2
+./imc -text -size 40 40 -limit 1024 | less -rEXF

thanks-for-help.md

@@ -1531,9 +1531,11 @@ details if you're interested in trying to understand it (or fix?).
 
 ## <a name="1992_imc"></a>[1992/imc](/1992/imc/imc.c) ([README.md](/1992/imc/README.md]))
 
+[Cody](#cody) provided the [try.sh](/1992/imc/try.sh) script.
+
 The original code, [imc.orig.c](/1992/imc/imc.orig.c), assumed that `exit(3)`
 returned a value but this will cause problems where `exit(3)` returns void. The
-source code was modified to avoid this problem but like [Cody](#cody) did with other fixes
+source code was modified to avoid this problem but like Cody did with other fixes
 he made this more like the original by redefining `exit` to use the comma
 operator so that it could be used in binary expressions.