[c-prog] Coding in C...

2008-11-30 Thread andrew clarke
Sam Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of pop tarts and pancake mix. - http://bash.org/?841435

[c-prog] Taking 3 character inputs!

2008-11-30 Thread Oludayo Oguntoyinbo
Hello Guys, Can anyone help out on how to take in 3 character input for execution in a program...! *printf(Enter the type of bread you want to make: \n); scanf(%c, type); printf(Enter D if the bread size is double else enter N: \n);

[c-prog] Re: Taking 3 character inputs!

2008-11-30 Thread John Matthews
--- In c-prog@yahoogroups.com, Oludayo Oguntoyinbo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: printf(Enter the type of bread you want to make: \n); scanf(%c, type); I would use fgets() to read in a line of input, then use sscanf() on the line. #include stdio.h int main(void) { char buf[100], type,

[c-prog] Re: Coding in C...

2008-11-30 Thread John Matthews
--- In c-prog@yahoogroups.com, andrew clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sam Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of pop tarts and pancake mix. - http://bash.org/?841435 :-) But couldn't you

Res: [c-prog] Re: integer promotions

2008-11-30 Thread Pedro Izecksohn
--- peternilsson42 wrote: Maybe you need -Wsign-conversion gcc -Wall -Wsign-conversion problem.c -o problem cc1: error: unrecognized command line option -Wsign-conversion Time you updated then... % gcc --version gcc.exe (GCC) 4.3.2 Thank you.

[c-prog] New poll for c-prog

2008-11-30 Thread c-prog
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the c-prog group: Is US Patent 7028023 valid? For those who do not know what is it about: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7028023.html o No. A previous work exist. o No. It is too general to be valid. o Yes. o It does not

Re: [c-prog] New poll for c-prog

2008-11-30 Thread Robert Ryan
I never knew that there was a patent for a linked list --- On Sun, 11/30/08, c-prog@yahoogroups.com c-prog@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: c-prog@yahoogroups.com c-prog@yahoogroups.com Subject: [c-prog] New poll for c-prog To: c-prog@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 10:05 PM

Re: [c-prog] New poll for c-prog

2008-11-30 Thread Paul Herring
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Robert Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never knew that there was a patent for a linked list The US Patent Office appears to have been broken for some time. -- PJH http://shabbleland.myminicity.com/tra