diff --git a/2020/ferguson2/README.md b/2020/ferguson2/README.md index ad7f234cf..7c301847c 100644 --- a/2020/ferguson2/README.md +++ b/2020/ferguson2/README.md @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ make ``` -**NOTE**: in [recode](recode.c) no spaces between options and option arguments are allowed. +**NOTE**: in `recode` no spaces between options and option arguments are allowed. ## Try: @@ -100,10 +100,12 @@ There is a good deal of useful documentation that is provided with this entry: * [enigma.1](enigma.1) - A useful man page for this entry. To render, try: + ```sh man ./enigma.1 ``` + * [recode.html][] (or [recode.md](recode.md) if reading on GitHub) - Some useful information about [recode.c](recode.c) @@ -536,8 +538,8 @@ ended his life. (I later made a bug fix but I consider this inconsequential). As for [recode.c][] though I really love this: ```c - /\ - / This is *not* what you think: + /\ + / This is *not* what you think: ``` ...because it seems so wrong in C code at first glance. Also what does the @@ -601,14 +603,14 @@ when reading in settings via the `-R` option which I explain in the letters can connect to A or B. Earlier there wasn't proper detection and this caused invalid output. -> Why only 10 pairs when the German alphabet has 26 letters (the Enigma did not -have the Eszett or the umlauts and in any case there is some disagreement about -these being part of the alphabet; anyway for umlauts one can add an E after the -letter and for the Eszett you can use 'ss' or 'SS' which is what they did)? It's -theoretically possible to have 13 but the Enigma typically had 10 pairs. It's -easy enough to update my entry to do this once you de-obfuscate it but I'm not -helping there (and in fact I don't think I could any more even if I wanted to - -at least not easily). + Why only 10 pairs when the German alphabet has 26 letters (the Enigma did + not have the Eszett or the umlauts and in any case there is some + disagreement about these being part of the alphabet; anyway for umlauts one + can add an E after the letter and for the Eszett you can use 'ss' or 'SS' + which is what they did)? It's theoretically possible to have 13 but the + Enigma typically had 10 pairs. It's easy enough to update my entry to do + this once you de-obfuscate it but I'm not helping there (and in fact I don't + think I could any more even if I wanted to - at least not easily). * It does not obviously have the clicking sound associated with the moving parts of the real machine. I think it would be annoying to have this as it