diff --git a/1994/ldb/README.md b/1994/ldb/README.md
index 56d903f1b..c1dc4d873 100644
--- a/1994/ldb/README.md
+++ b/1994/ldb/README.md
@@ -28,11 +28,7 @@ some_command | ./ldb
 ## Try:
 
 ```sh
-./ldb < /etc/passwd
-
-printf "The International Obfuscated C Code Contest\n
-	Best One-liner\n
-	by Laurion Burchall" | ./ldb
+./try.sh
 ```
 
 
diff --git a/1994/ldb/try.sh b/1994/ldb/try.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e0471b94f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/1994/ldb/try.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# try.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 1994/ldb
+#
+
+# 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="$CC" all >/dev/null || exit 1
+
+ldb_file()
+{
+    if [[ "$#" != 1 ]]; then
+	echo "$0: ldb_file() expects 1 arg, got $#" 1>&2
+	return
+    fi
+    read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./ldb < $1: "
+    echo 1>&2
+    ./ldb < "$1" | sed '/^$/d'
+    echo 1>&2
+}
+
+ldb_ioccc()
+{
+    echo "$ printf \"The International Obfuscated C Code Contest\\nBest One-liner\\nby Laurion Burchall\" | ./ldb"
+    read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to continue: "
+    echo 1>&2
+    printf "The International Obfuscated C Code Contest\nBest One-liner\nby Laurion Burchall" | ./ldb | sed '/^$/d'
+    echo 1>&2
+}
+
+for i in $(seq 1 5); do
+    ldb_file /etc/passwd
+    ldb_ioccc
+    ldb_file ldb.c
+    ldb_file README.md
+done
diff --git a/thanks-for-help.md b/thanks-for-help.md
index 282c8d7a0..b665eea4e 100644
--- a/thanks-for-help.md
+++ b/thanks-for-help.md
@@ -1903,7 +1903,7 @@ entries that actually did not work because of missing or incorrect prototypes).
 ## <a name="1994_ldb"></a>[1994/ldb](/1994/ldb/ldb.c) ([README.md](/1994/ldb/README.md]))
 
 [Cody](#cody) fixed this so it would compile and work with modern compilers. The problem
-was that `srand()` returns void but it was used in a `||` expression. Thus the
+was that `srand()` returns `void` but it was used in a `||` expression. Thus the
 comma operator was needed.
 
 Cody also fixed it for clang under Linux which objected to incompatible pointer
@@ -1913,14 +1913,15 @@ but what was being passed to it is an `int`).
 Cody also changed the entry to use `fgets(3)` instead of `gets(3)`. This one has
 a minor annoyance in that it now prints a newline after the output but this
 seems like a worthy compromise for preventing the interspersed output in macOS
-and at the same time it's safer (fixing it to not have the extra newline is more
-problematic than it's worth and in macOS another line of output would be shown
-without the change anyway and the difference is that now it's just a blank line
-rather than an annoying warning).
+and at the same time it's safer and allows for parsing file with longer lines.
+Fixing it it to not have the extra newline is more problematic than it's worth,
+in macOS another line of output would be shown without the change anyway -
+unless `2>/dev/null` - and the difference is that now it's just a blank line
+rather than an annoying warning. A subtlety about this fix: if a line is greater
+than 231 in length if the program chooses that line it might print the first 231
+characters or it might print (up to) the next 231 characters and so on.
 
-A subtlety about this fix: if a line is greater than 231 in length if the
-program chooses that line it might print the first 231 characters or it might
-print (up to) the next 231 characters and so on.
+Cody also added the [try.sh](/1994/ldb/try.sh) script.
 
 
 ## <a name="1994_schnitzi"></a>[1994/schnitzi](/1994/schnitzi/schnitzi.c) ([README.md](/1994/schnitzi/README.md]))