Re: Can't compile kernel

1998-07-18 Thread James
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Glynn Clements wrote: This isn't an error message, it's a warning. uh huh... It shouldn't prevent the kernel from being compiled. ok... You should be able to suppress the warnings by adding return (void *) O; to the end of the functions in question.

Re: Text editor for Linux

1998-07-18 Thread James
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: I have been looking a comfortable editor for Linux for a quite long time now. The most promising I have found is Zed (http://space.tin.it/io/saserafi). However, it's not exactly what I want. well my favourites (in order) are: Vi (Vim actually)

Re: A Geometric Java Problem

1998-07-21 Thread James
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Mihail Mihaylov wrote: -Hi everybody, -I am a programmer, but unfortunately I am not very good in Geometry and I -have the following problem: me neither, let's see what we can come up with, baring in mind it is 03:33am - -I want to add a small circle at the end of a line.

Re: Send Your Own Mass Email - FREE SOFTWARE

1998-07-21 Thread James
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -You can profit from junk e-mail. If your computer is sitting idle while you're at work or play...you're crazy! right, this one pisses me off, this is just a huge invitation to spam. i'm going to send my own mass emails... let's see postmaster@all

Bash

1998-07-21 Thread James
where can i get info on writing shell scripts for bash (like what's the format of an if statement?)

Re: your mail

1998-07-22 Thread James
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Deng Tian wrote: -Dear All, is this for real? If not it's Sick. If it is then how can sending chain mails (even though it claims not to be and then later on says it is...) help?

Pthreads-dev

1998-07-24 Thread James
Where can i get the Pthreads-Dev package from? I need it so i can compile something (sound-recorder-0.02.tar.gz) because at the moment i get this error: bigbird:/sound-recorder-0.02# make cd src; make all; make[1]: Entering directory `/sound-recorder-0.02/src' g++ -D_REENTRANT -Wall -O3 -c

This List

1998-07-31 Thread James
Is this list broken or something? i've had hardly any mail off it! (either that or procmail has gone a bit wonky - i'm sure it deletes mail for me! i know the default mailbox for unsorted mail disappears every so often) I Like England Just Fine, But I Ain't Eating Any Of That Beef MailTo:

Re: remove

1998-08-01 Thread James
On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, K.HARI.KRISHNAN wrote: //remove This doesn't work you know... Oh if only people would read the email they first got... [It's the same on ALL mailing lists] I Like England Just Fine, But I Ain't Eating Any Of That Beef MailTo: root at kermit "dot" globalnet /dot\ co

Patches

1998-08-02 Thread James
i want to make patches for my C programs, i know it involves using diff to make the patch, and patch to apply it but what do i do? i've read 'man diff' and it can output patches in various formats, does it matter which format i use (i don't think it does because patch works out the format when

Re: array filling problem

1999-04-10 Thread James
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Dan Jue wrote: # Are we allowed to assume that row-major order arrays are totally # contiguous in memory for any platform (by your example of address Probably not. # a[0][4])? For arrays of structures or objects (or some other big unit), # is it not possible for their

processes

1999-04-13 Thread James
if i know the pid of a process, how can i find out it's status? (i.e running, blocked, ready, zombie, invalid pid...) -- +++ If at first you don't succeed, you must be a programmer +++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.penguinpowered.com/~a_out

Re: compiling

1999-04-11 Thread James
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Darius Blaszijk wrote: # Recently I came across a package witch I want to use in my programs. The # package consists of a header file (interface) and a *.c source code file # (implementation). How can I use these files in my application? If I try # to compile my application

egcs

1999-04-21 Thread James
can egcs compile kernels yet? -- +++ The program isn't debugged until the last user is dead. +++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.penguinpowered.com/~a_out

C Compilers

1999-04-25 Thread James
What are the differences between: gcc egcs pgc and which should i use? Last i tried, egcs wouldn't compile kernels. All i want is a good, quick C and C++ compiler that works 100% with all code. Also, where am i supposed to install a c compiler and how do i remove an existing one (after

recv

1999-04-26 Thread James
i'm trying to communicate with a server which sends output down a socket. The server sends a code and then some text (e.g 01: Connection Refused). What i'd like to do is just recv the first 2 bytes and act on them, instead of having to recv the whole line (i don't know how long the lines of text

Re: Allocation

1999-04-28 Thread James
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Amol Mohite wrote: # in main function if i have int i, j; # # can i be sure that i and j are contiguous ? does it matter? (think about it, what use would knowing if they were do you?) they could be, then again could not be. Does it depend on processor archetecture and

Re: Calling sequence

1999-04-28 Thread James
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Amol Mohite wrote: oh goodie, more homework to do :) # In gcc, # # if i = 2; # then j = i++ + ++i; # # what is the value of j. 6. # what is the calling sequence in this case ? ++i first or i++ first ? it'd do this: i = 2 i++ /* add 1 to i and return 2 */ i =

Re: recv

1999-04-28 Thread James
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Glynn Clements wrote: # # Why don't you just use fgets(), fscanf() etc? # how? don't they need a FILE pointer not a file descriptor. (this is probably # a very silly question with a very simple answer...) # See the fdopen(3) manpage. Ahhh... i see. FILE *foo; foo =

Re: Calling sequence

1999-04-28 Thread James
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Glynn Clements wrote: # In gcc, # # if i = 2; # then j = i++ + ++i; # # what is the value of j. # # i++ == 2 # ++i == 3 # =j == 5 no. it's not. I typed this in: main() { int i = 2; printf ("%d", i++ + ++i);} and when i ran it i got 6

RE: Calling sequence

1999-04-29 Thread James
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Mullen, Patrick wrote: # Like I said from the beginning (or maybe I just thought it, # I can't remember), the example line is bad programming # so it shouldn't be done, anyway. yeah because if you miss out the spaces it becomes i+j (or whatever the variables were) and

Re: Mail

1998-10-19 Thread James [on his mailserver]
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: There are two UNIX mailbox formats. Which one thats used depends on your sendmail version/configuration. Format 1. "^From " based. From Whoever@somewhere date mail data. Any line beginning with "From " is escaped to "From ". i've scanned

Re: Newbie Header Q's

1998-11-09 Thread James [on his mailserver]
On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Marc Evelyn wrote: Nah. They use ed. there's bits of that in VI, :q! and all that stuff. is it as bad as edlin?

Re: mail help

1998-11-21 Thread James [on his mailserver]
On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, CyberPsychotic wrote: probably would be worth to set list-members-only posting policy. i don't see why this wasn't set anyway. What's the use of being able to post to this list if you never receive replies?

Re: egcs

1998-11-26 Thread James [on his mailserver]
On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Glynn Clements wrote: I'm not sure if this answers your question, but then I'm not really sure exactly what your question was. i'm not sure either (it was approaching 3am and i was determined to make kernel 2.0.36 compile before i went to bed.. and i did) i've got both

Code formatting

1998-11-30 Thread James [on his mailserver]
should C code be formatted so that it fits into an 80 column display? i think it should because otherwise list and other viewers wrap the text which looks really nasty.

Mobile Phones

1998-12-14 Thread James [on his mailserver]
A bit off topic, but interesting nontheless; i crashed my mobile phone! Panasonic G450, UK Vodafone it said Lo Battery, i pressed a key (probably 5) and the backlight came on, then the battery ran out and it said Phone Shutting Down and stayed that way until i removed it's battery! when i

Re: File formats? .MID, .KAR, .ST3

1998-12-22 Thread James [on his mailserver]
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, James [on his mailserver] wrote: On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Dave wrote: Can anyone point me to information on file formats for the following file types: www.wotsit.com has loads of specs on file formats. oops, meant www.wotsit.org

! = -1?

1998-12-26 Thread James [on his mailserver]
in C's logic, do -1 and 1 mean the same thing? i.e FALSE. 0 is the ONLY value that is interpreted as TRUE right? cos i have a function (and we'll call it foo() again :) which does something and returns -1 if there is an error and 0 if it went ok. Now if in my main() i do this: /* assume foo()

Arrays

1998-12-27 Thread James [on his mailserver]
isn't there any way to do this: ask user for some integer 0 make an array that big cos i'd like to... would this work: int thing[0], *ptr = thing; int in; ... printf ("Enter a number 0:"); scanf ("%d", in); realloc (ptr, in); ... ?

Re: ! = -1?

1998-12-28 Thread James [on his mailserver]
On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Colin Campbell wrote: errr wait a minute. 0 equals false any other value represents truth. You seem err crap! i ALWAYS mix it up! going to buy a post-it-note and write it down and stick it on my monitor :) to quote from my KR C book... "if it is true (that is, if

Libraries

1998-12-30 Thread James [on his mailserver]
i've written a C library (call it 'foo) and made a foo.a file using 'ar'. Now what do i do? i tried copying the file into /usr/local/lib and compiling a test program using 'gcc -Wall -lfoo test.c -o test' and it complained about undefined references to all my library routines. i also tried

bits

1999-01-01 Thread James [on his mailserver]
i'm writing a program which can accept switches to set various things in the program, there will be several switches (all optional) which set some conditions in my program to either ON or OFF. To process this i was going to: declare a struct like this: struct { unsigned int file : 1; /*

Mail (fwd)

1999-01-02 Thread James [on his mailserver]
oops! i'll try sending it to the right place this time... there isn't a linux-c-programming at vger is there? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 01:37:01 + (GMT) From: "James [on his mailserver]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail in a

Porting Resources

1999-03-21 Thread James C. Lewis
t pitfalls to watch out for, and items of the such. Thanks in advance, -James C. Lewis _ /_ _ _ _ / ) / _' _ (_/(///)(-_) (__ . (__(-((//_) PUCC Information Center Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please place all complaints in this box -- []

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