Re: [offtopic] Emacs vs vi

1998-06-23 Thread MCENANEY WILLIAM J
Hi Joel, It's hard to believe that I really got you, but I wonder what an OCR program would do with brail. Although my vision is almost 20/20, my PC reads to me with a program named "Openbook Unbound" and the Keynote Gold speech synthasizer. The progam does superbly when it sees san serrifed

Re: network programming

1998-06-23 Thread Edward Roper
UNIX Network Programming: Networking APIs Richard Stevens I think cover price is $58.75 :) and it's worth every cent. On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 08:07:17PM -0400, shinobi wrote: can someone please point me to some good TCP/IP programming resources. some reference material, and a tutorial would

Re: network programming

1998-06-23 Thread Ibrahim F Haddad
Hello all, At 08:07 PM 6/22/98 -0400, you wrote: some reference material, and a tutorial would be ideal. but anything you can recommend would be greatly appreciated. I have passed throught this page on the web http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/net and I think it may be useful as a

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1998-06-23 Thread grafit
To: linux-c-programmer @itis-com From: Aravinda Guzzar H.P 751/A, 15th 'B' Main Road, Gokula 1st stage,Mathikere, Bangalore-54 email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] sir, sub:clearing of few doubts I am final year

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1998-06-23 Thread Glynn Clements
grafit wrote: 1 I have used the "dialog" utility in linux , it worked fine. But I am not able to get the return value and use it in my program. The Manual says it prints the value on stderr. But I am not able to capture it. The program

Weird keyboard i/o

1998-06-23 Thread James
ok, compile this code, then explain why it does what it does... /* Start Of Code */ #include stdio.h char c; int main () { printf ("Scanf Test\n"); printf ("enter a character "); scanf ("%c", c); printf ("Char was [%c]\n", c); printf ("Getc test\n"); printf ("Enter a

Re: svga/vga

1998-06-23 Thread James
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Mike 'b0mbtraq' Kabata wrote: -On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Glynn Clements wrote: - - Have you got any ideas why i can't get any - non-standard mode (640x480x256 even) ? - - The usual reason is that it doesn't include drivers for your - particular graphics chipset. - -Hmm...

Re: [offtopic] Emacs vs vi

1998-06-23 Thread James
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, John Gorman wrote: -I can open up an emacs window, write/modify my program, compile it, have -the cursor pointed to each error that may appear, bring up a man page if I -need to, and then test my program and never leave emacs. ever heard of Virtual Terminals? on a good

RE: ptrs to functions and void*

1998-06-23 Thread Mullen, Patrick
There's really not much to either topic. The one hard part about pointers to functions is to remember to put parentesis around the * and the function name. void (*funcpoint)(); void func() { printf("Hello\n"); } funcpoint = func; /* Notice no parenthesis! */ (*funcpoint)(); /* "Hello\n" is

Re: [offtopic] Emacs vs vi

1998-06-23 Thread James
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Kevin Sivits wrote: - - -Vi and emacs both suck. Text editors are for losers. The only real -editor is a line editor. Worship ed or its bastard cousin edlin. do you by any chance write your code in binary :) cool signature by the way... -[[EMAIL

Re: [offtopic] Emacs vs vi

1998-06-23 Thread Karl F. Larsen
What is wrong with Ctrl-k x? On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, James wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Moshe Zadka wrote: -Well, with vi's command mode saves one from the pianist syndrom. -(E.g. alt-shift-5). Of course, that way, your fingers will not -elongate. If you want to play the piano,

Re: Weird keyboard i/o

1998-06-23 Thread MCENANEY WILLIAM J
Hi James, I don't know what's going wrong, but it did what you said it would do. I ran it on a SparcServer 20. For fun, I wrote this program: #include stdio.h int main () { int c; puts ("Type a character."); c = getchar (stdin); putchar (c); } When I ran a.out, it displayed "c",

Programming X window

1998-06-23 Thread Mojahedul-Hoque Abul-Hasanat
Dear Listmembers, Is there a C++ programming framework for X window? I mean something analogus to MFC/OWL in MS windows. Is there an online resource where I can learn about the X window API? Many thanks in advance.