Several README.md files updated

Typos / spelling errors and other such things. Many many more need to be
checked still.

2011/akari/README.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ make
 ./akari - - even < example.ppm > even_output.ppm
 ./akari example.ppm odd_output.ppm
 
-make akari2.c
+make akari2
 cat akari2.c
 
 make akari2
@@ -31,14 +31,14 @@ make akari2
 ./akari2 < akari2.c
 ./akari2 rot13 < akari2.c
 
-make akari3.c
+make akari3
 cat akari3.c
 
 make akari3
 
 ./akari3
 
-make akari4.c
+make akari4
 cat akari4.c
 
 ./akari4

2011/fredriksson/README.md

@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ ulimit -s unlimited
 ./fredriksson -k2 -t -n bofuskate < /usr/share/dict/words
 ```
 
+NOTE: you need to be allowed to change your stack size or else the last command
+will likely cause the program to dump core.
+
 ## Judges' comments:
 
 The author of this entry was making sure that it does not win the
@@ -172,7 +175,7 @@ expressions by putting `]` as the first character, and putting `-` last.
 * The initialized char array includes the source code of the real program,
   as well as its name and commands to build and run it, all Burrows-Wheeler
   -transformed, then run-length-encoded with unary coding. The main program
-  extracts and builds that, and then calls it. More precicely, the command
+  extracts and builds that, and then calls it. More precisely, the command
   to build is
 
 		gcc -O3 ag.c -o ag
@@ -231,7 +234,7 @@ expressions by putting `]` as the first character, and putting `-` last.
 
 		./fredriksson -ck0 [0-9] < fredriksson.c
 
-  This should print 1, as there is a numer '3' in the char array (only).
+  This should print 1, as there is a number '3' in the char array (only).
   You can also try
 
 		./fredriksson -ck0 [0-9] < ag.c

2011/goren/README.md

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ using conditions.
 In this work, Magritte points out that a picture of a pipe is not
 a pipe.  But what IS a pipe? This program tries to provide an answer.
 
-Magritte's [test for pipes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images} is:
+Magritte's [test for pipes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images) is:
 
     The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could
     you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not?
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ impressive, but I think it can be taken further, in two ways.
 First, conditional operators, such as ?:, && and ||, can be thrown
 away.  Second, using setjmp and longjmp, which are unfortunately
 not in common use, might make it difficult for a novice programmer
-to understnad the code without referring to the man page.
+to understand the code without referring to the man page.
 
 By removing these, the code is 100% condition free, and every
 function runs its instructions in perfect order. Naturally, this
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ The program should compile with any C compiler, but was tested
 mostly with gcc on Linux.
 
 It doesn't support 64 bits (due to integer-pointer casts, and a >>31).
-It does work on 64-bit Linux, becasue all functions are below 4GB.
+It does work on 64-bit Linux, because all functions are below 4GB.
 
 ## Copyright:
 

2011/konno/README.md

@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ make
 
 This tiny program outputs what looks like a tiny keyboard.  
 OK, so the letters are missing. But that is no problem because 
-this program identifes the lower case letters that were pressed!
+this program identifies the lower case letters that were pressed!
 
 It is one of those minimal keyboards without all of those
-confusing symbols keys.  No shift for SHOULDING CAPS
+confusing symbols keys.  No shift for SHOUTING CAPS
 but at least it does not have that useless caps lock key!
 
 We recommend that you completely deconstruct / figure out

2012/hamano/README.md

@@ -30,12 +30,12 @@ cc -xc hint.pdf -o hint
 ./hint
 ```
 
-Of course, You can also obfuscate c code:
+Of course, You can also obfuscate C code:
 
 ```sh
-echo 'void main(){puts("Hello World!");}' | ./hamano > hello.pdf
-cc -xc hello.pdf -o hello2
-./hello2 | gcc -xc - -o ./hello3
+echo 'int main(){puts("Hello World!");}' | ./hamano > hello.pdf
+cc -Wno-implicit-function-declaration -xc hello.pdf -o hello2
+./hello2 | gcc -Wno-implicit-function-declaration -xc - -o ./hello3
 ./hello3
 ```
 

2012/hou/README.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ less hou.c
 
 ./hou chk.txt hou.c | wc
 
-./hou markdown.txt remarks.markdown > remarks.htm
+./hou markdown.txt README.md > remarks.htm
 ```
 
 View the `remarks.htm` file in your web browser.
@@ -93,9 +93,9 @@ As an extra tweak, the text message actually does something useful. Remove the "
 
 ### References
 
-[1] [Russ Cox, Regular Expression Matching: the Virtual Machine Approach](http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp2.html)
+[1][Russ Cox, Regular Expression Matching: the Virtual Machine Approach](http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp2.html)
 
-[2] [Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast (but is slow in Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, ...)](http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html)
+[2][Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast (but is slow in Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, ...)](http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html)
 
 ## Copyright:
 

2012/vik/README.md

@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ macros or helper methods that can be confusing,  I placed all functionality
 in the main function. Main is called recursively and quite extensively, but
 it gives  the benefit  that all  invocations of  the function  has the same
 parameters, argv and argc.   This really helps readability, as a programmer
-doesn’t need to remember several variable or function names.   I also tried
+doesn't need to remember several variable or function names.   I also tried
 to reduce the number of keywords,  and the program only  has four for-loops
 followed by a single return statement.  There is a little bit of use of the
 question mark operator,   but this is really  there to keep  the program as

2013/birken/README.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ make
 ### Try:
 
 ```sh
-./birken < examples/ioccc.txt
+./birken < ioccc.txt
 
 perl -e 'map{map{print int(rand()*8);}(0..16);print chr(10);}(0..30);' | tr '[0-4]' ' '| ./birken
 ```

2013/morgan2/README.md

@@ -32,12 +32,12 @@ echo "Do or do not. There is no try."
 ## Judges' comments:
 
 The judges enjoyed playing the game almost to completion; if we remember correctly, 
-we managed to place 59 or 60 dominos. We wonder, what would be faster: to play the game to completion
+we managed to place 59 or 60 dominoes. We wonder, what would be faster: to play the game to completion
 or to write an unobfuscated version of it?
 
 ## Author's comments:
 
-This program is a domino game. The goal is to place dominos on the 8x8 grid.
+This program is a domino game. The goal is to place dominoes on the 8x8 grid.
 Each domino is made of 6 squares of the color red or green. To place a domino,
 at least one of it side shall match the other side of another domino.
 
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ at least one of it side shall match the other side of another domino.
 
 At the start of the game, the first domino is placed randomly on the grid. You
 get another domino to place by selecting one empty position in the stack on the
-right. You can have to 8 dominos pending at any time.
+right. You can have to 8 dominoes pending at any time.
 
 ### Moving in the stack
 
@@ -71,17 +71,17 @@ sides and the domino has at least one neighbour.
 
 ### Scoring
 
-First, depending on the number of dominos pending in the stack, a bonus is
+First, depending on the number of dominoes pending in the stack, a bonus is
 accorded :
 * 1 domino in the stack : 8 points.
-* 2 dominos in the stack : 4 points.
-* 3 or 4 dominos in the stack : 2 points.
-* 5 or more dominos in the stack : 0 point.
+* 2 dominoes in the stack : 4 points.
+* 3 or 4 dominoes in the stack : 2 points.
+* 5 or more dominoes in the stack : 0 point.
 
 Then the bonus is multiplied by the number of matching neighbor the placed domino
 has (1, 2, 3 or 4). This is added to the score.
 
-Finally, the total score is divided by the number of dominos placed (1 - 64).
+Finally, the total score is divided by the number of dominoes placed (1 - 64).
 
 The 3 numbers on display represent : the total score, the fill count and the
 final score (total score divided by fill count).
@@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ final score (total score divided by fill count).
 
 The game is finished when no more domino can be placed and you either :
 * filled the complete grid.
-* have 8 pending dominos in the stack.
-* no more domino can be revealed in the stack (more than 56 dominos placed on
+* have 8 pending dominoes in the stack.
+* no more domino can be revealed in the stack (more than 56 dominoes placed on
   the grid).
 
 **Note** There is no real end of game detection implemented in the program,
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ simply press `q` when you have finished...
 
 ### Strategy
 
-* Try to minimize the number of dominos revealed in the stack. The lower the number,
+* Try to minimize the number of dominoes revealed in the stack. The lower the number,
 the higher the bonus.
 * Each domino is unique and all combination of colors exists, so keep track
   of what is already place and what is left.

2013/robison/README.md

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ And modulus if remainders the needing,
 on standard input percent be feeding.
 
 More than one line can thru give input,
-when interactive one values more than thruput.
+when interactive one values more than throughput.
 
 With cut and paste and some time,
 one can compute M(23209).
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ one can compute M(23209).
 
 ### Oh, The Strings You Can C!
 
-I love the C language; its tersness is tops.  
+I love the C language; its terseness is tops.  
 But the thing I abhor is numerical ops!  
 
 No shifting, division, remainder, or times.