Merge pull request #1826 from xexyl/laman84-try

Add 1984/laman/try.sh

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

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

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
+[Cody](#cody) added the [try.sh](1984/laman/try.sh) script.
-not a positive number it will not do anything useful or anything at all.
 
+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.