From c080dde06a9c64b125ee9517e8d8a55733e34313 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cody Boone Ferguson <53008573+xexyl@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2023 12:05:03 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Format fixes in 1993/cmills/README.md --- 1993/cmills/README.md | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/1993/cmills/README.md b/1993/cmills/README.md index 75a311c63..99f38fb09 100644 --- a/1993/cmills/README.md +++ b/1993/cmills/README.md @@ -1,14 +1,16 @@ # "Bill Gates" Award: - Chris Mills - Pagine Corporation - 1961-A Concourse Drive - San Jose, CA 95131 - USA +Chris Mills +Pagine Corporation +1961-A Concourse Drive +San Jose, CA 95131 +USA ## To build: - make all +```sh +make all +``` NOTE: this entry requires `X11/Xlib.h` header file and the X11 library to compile. macOS users running Mountain Lion and later will need to download and @@ -17,13 +19,15 @@ entry. ## To run: - DISPLAY="your_X_server_display" - export DISPLAY - ./cmills [speed] # must be run on an X11 server +```sh +DISPLAY="your_X_server_display" +export DISPLAY +./cmills [speed] # must be run on an X11 server +``` - where: +where: - speed update speed from 1 to 9 (default is 9) +`speed` is update speed from 1 to 9 (default is 9). ## Judges' comments: @@ -31,19 +35,19 @@ From the San Jose Mercury News (May 15, 1993 page 20A "West Hackers trounce East in computer quiz game"): - "Since 1984, a contest has been held on Usenet for the most - unreadable, creative, bizarre but working C program", Gates - said. "What is the name of this contest?" - - "Windows," shot back Gassee, naming Microsoft's premier product - - a product over which Apple sued Microsoft five years ago. Not - the right answer - it's "The Obfuscated C Contest [sic]" - but - it brought down the house of Apple partisans... +> "Since 1984, a contest has been held on Usenet for the most +> unreadable, creative, bizarre but working C program", Gates +> said. "What is the name of this contest?" +> +> "Windows," shot back Gassee, naming Microsoft's premier product +> - a product over which Apple sued Microsoft five years ago. Not +> the right answer - it's "The Obfuscated C Contest [sic]" - but +> it brought down the house of Apple partisans... [The expression on Bill Gates' face was a sight to behold, as reported to us by several who were there]. -You must set $DISPLAY in your environment or the program will +You must set `$DISPLAY` in your environment or the program will dump core. This is not a bug as the author documented it as a feature. :-)