From 6a82b0423059700ce677ce60d7808ac26038ac63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cody Boone Ferguson <53008573+xexyl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 09:33:34 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add 1984/laman/try.sh

---
 1984/laman/README.md |  2 ++
 1984/laman/try.sh    | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 thanks-for-help.md   |  5 ++--
 3 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 1984/laman/try.sh

diff --git a/1984/laman/README.md b/1984/laman/README.md
index 91754f326..bfba84d3f 100644
--- a/1984/laman/README.md
+++ b/1984/laman/README.md
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ The program accepts ONE POSITIVE number.  Seeing is believing, so try things
 like:
 
 ```sh
+./try.sh
+
 ./laman 4
 ./laman 9
 ./laman 16
diff --git a/1984/laman/try.sh b/1984/laman/try.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..99bd095d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/1984/laman/try.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# try.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 1984/laman
+#
+
+# 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="$CC" all >/dev/null || exit 1
+
+# clear screen after compilation so that only the entry is shown
+clear
+
+run()
+{
+    if [[ "$#" -ne 1 ]]; then
+	echo "$0: expected 1 arg, got: $#" 1>&2
+	return
+    fi
+
+    read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./laman $1: "
+    echo 1>&2
+    ./laman "$1"
+    echo 1>&2
+}
+
+
+run_twice()
+{
+    if [[ "$#" -ne 1 ]]; then
+	echo "$0: expected 1 arg, got: $#" 1>&2
+	return
+    fi
+
+    read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./laman $1; ./laman $1: "
+    echo 1>&2
+    ./laman "$1"; ./laman "$1"
+    echo 1>&2
+}
+run 4
+run 9
+run 16
+
+run_twice 4
+run_twice 9
+run_twice 16
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./laman 4; ./laman 9; ./laman 16: "
+echo 1>&2
+./laman 4; ./laman 9; ./laman 16
+echo 1>&2
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./laman 4; ./laman 8; ./laman 16; ./laman 32; ./laman 64: "
+echo 1>&2
+./laman 4; ./laman 8; ./laman 16; ./laman 32; ./laman 64
+echo 1>&2
diff --git a/thanks-for-help.md b/thanks-for-help.md
index 145ded0c4..79d74dea6 100644
--- a/thanks-for-help.md
+++ b/thanks-for-help.md
@@ -121,9 +121,10 @@ cd 1984/decot ; make diff_orig_prog
 
 ## <a name="1984_laman"></a>[1984/laman](/1984/laman/laman.c) ([README.md](/1984/laman/README.md]))
 
-[Cody](#cody) fixed this to not crash when no arg is specified. Note that if the arg is
-not a positive number it will not do anything useful or anything at all.
+[Cody](#cody) added the [try.sh](1984/laman/try.sh) script.
 
+Cody also fixed this to not crash when no arg is specified. Note that if the arg
+is not a positive number it will not do anything useful or anything at all.
 This was fixed on 30 October 2023 after the bug status was changed from INABIAF
 (it's not a bug it's a feature) to bug.