Add 2015/hou/try.sh + format/typo checks

The file large is from dd(1) of /dev/zero to be large enough to cause
the program to run out of memory (but not too large for the repo, see
'wc -c' on it) as suggested by the judges' remarks.

2015/hou/README.md

@@ -5,10 +5,24 @@ make
 ```
 
 
+### Bugs and (Mis)features:
+
+The current status of this entry is:
+
+```
+STATUS: INABIAF - please **DO NOT** fix
+```
+
+For more detailed information see [2015 hou in bugs.md](/bugs.md#2015-hou).
+
+
+
+
 ## To use:
 
 ```sh
-echo IOCCC | ./prog
+echo something | ./prog
+./prog < file
 ```
 
 
@@ -37,7 +51,7 @@ Some things that make you go, "huh?"
 
 How are those values magically returned?
 
-What happens with a large file? Something over 256K
+What happens with a large file? Something over 256K.
 
 ```sh
 ./prog < large_file
@@ -50,7 +64,7 @@ Where does that message come from?
 
 This looks like a normal C program.
 
-Almost everything is a double.
+Almost everything is a `double`.
 
 There are tell-tale signs like `pow(2,(?/12))` and `exp(-?*?)` (names redacted).
 You can also find a bunch of cosines and polynomial evaluations.
@@ -59,6 +73,7 @@ It looks like a ????? ???????????, right?
 
 Run and find out.
 
+
 ### Why obfuscated
 
 Some poor scripting folks only have access to doubles (Jav?script, L?a, BA?IC,
@@ -72,10 +87,11 @@ isn't a single integer. Even `getchar()` and `EOF` are immediately converted.
 
 Since `bool` counts as an integer type too, there is no boolean either. No
 comparison, no `if`, no `?:`, no `||` `&&`. Everything is done in a single loop
-that terminates on printf. Straight up arithmetic.
+that terminates on `printf(3)`. Straight up arithmetic.
+
+`floor(3)` and `ceil(3)` are technically double-to-double functions, but they feel
+like cheating. Yes `cos(3)`, no `floor(3)`.
 
-`floor` and `ceil` are technically double-to-double functions, but they feel
-like cheating. Yes `cos`, no `floor`.
 
 ### Limitations
 

2015/hou/try.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# try.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 2015/hou
+#
+
+# 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="$CC" all >/dev/null || exit 1
+
+# clear screen after compilation so that only the entry is shown
+clear
+
+
+echo "$ echo IOCCC | ./prog" 1>&2
+echo IOCCC | ./prog
+echo 1>&2
+
+echo "$ ./prog < rfc1321.txt" 1>&2
+./prog < rfc1321.txt
+echo 1>&2
+
+echo "$ echo \"\" | ./prog" 1>&2
+echo "" | ./prog
+echo 1>&2
+
+echo "For the next two, observe the magical values: "
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to continue: "
+echo 1>&2
+echo "$ ./prog < prog.c | cut -c-5" 1>&2
+./prog < prog.c | cut -c-5
+
+echo "$ ./prog < Makefile | cut -c-4" 1>&2
+./prog < Makefile | cut -c-4
+echo 1>&2
+
+echo "$ wc -c large" 1>&2
+wc -c large
+
+echo "$ ./prog < large" 1>&2
+./prog < large

thanks-for-help.md

@@ -3835,6 +3835,9 @@ simply typing `make back_to` or `make mullender`) and then runs the famous
 [Cody](#cody) added explicit linking of libm (`-lm`) for systems that do not do this
 (Linux doesn't seem to but macOS does).
 
+Cody also added the [try.sh](2015/hou/try.sh) script and the large file `large`
+which the `try.sh` script uses.
+
 Cody also added the RFC 1321 text file, [rfc1321.txt](2015/hou/rfc1321.txt) to
 the directory, to make it so one need not download it, and which the README.md
 file now links to.