Add item to FAQ about cb

Includes Plan 9 source code and a html rendered man page. If there was a
unix or linux version the code can no longer be found.

Some README.md files refer to this tool. When an author's remarks it
will not be removed or updated but if in the judges' remarks it might be
moved to a historical note subsection. This will happen in time with
additional passes of the README.md files - for most it should be the
final pass but the years 2011+ will need a pass before that.
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@@ -178,6 +178,22 @@ If the entry requires gcc and you did not explicitly install gcc in macOS you
will not be able to run or use these entries. This is because macOS gcc is
actually clang, even `/usr/bin/gcc`.
That being said many (if not most) of these entries have been fixed and some
others will be looked at, when found.
## Q: What is `cb` that is mentioned in some of the older entries?
This was a C beautifier for Plan 9. There exists a man page and the source code
can be found
[here](https://github.com/plan9foundation/plan9/tree/main/sys/src/cmd/cb) at the
[Plan 9 History, from 1992-09-21 to 2015-01-10 GitHub
repository](https://github.com/plan9foundation/plan9).
The man page rendered as html can be found
[here](https://9p.io/magic/man2html/1/cb).
If there is a version for Unix or Linux it cannot be found now.
## Q: I can't get XYZZY entry to compile with clang. What can I do?
Although we have fixed numerous entries to work with clang (sometimes in an alt