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convert bc calculator expression to latex? 3 46 (9/29/2012 5:55:05 AM) comp.text.tex Any program/utility/automated_procedure to do that? Closest I could google was some guy asking about python-to-latex, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3867028/ converting-a-python-numeric-expression-t... JohnF

packed structs 36 29 (9/22/2012 1:54:36 AM) comp.lang.c Any >>portable>ifmember[i]. Then I could offsetof() and sizeof() each member, and write it out, so just one (much less boring) func could handle all the different block type structs. But, afaik, I don't t... JohnF

#define BYTES *8 36 28 (8/28/2012 7:44:24 AM) comp.lang.c Anything wrong with that, i.e., with #define BYTES *8 to multiply by 8? It looked a little weird to me, but the more obvious #define BYTES(x) ((x)*8) isn't what I wanted to write. This was to express units ... JohnF

gif/lzw algorithms and code 25 39 (8/16/2012 5:51:01 AM) comp.lang.c I've been looking for algorithms/code to render gif's from in-memory pixel rasters, and gif/rbtree from http://www.malcolmmclean.site11.com/www/datadensity/ seems among the best. Anybody used that, have c... JohnF

(embarrassingly) simple showpage question 9 31 (8/8/2012 4:58:17 AM) comp.lang.postscript I want to create a two/many-page document, e.g., so that gv shows it as two/many pages and allows you to navigate among them. Couldn't find a simple explanation in PLRM or any-color-book.ps, and the little s... JohnF

setrgbcolor with lineto/curveto 24 32 (6/13/2012 1:41:59 PM) comp.lang.postscript Apologies if this is simple, but I don't know postscript very well, and failed to google it... I'd like to draw a lineto/curveto with the color varying from one endpoint to the other. That is, it should star... JohnF

cat program.c | gcc -etc 11 80 (3/4/2012 4:00:48 PM) comp.unix.programmer Any way to do something like that, i.e., instead of cc -whatever program.c -o program pipe/redirect another program's stdout to cc's stdin like cat program.c | cc -whatever -o program In particular, I'm u... JohnF

math mode in lrbox 4 24 (2/26/2012 5:13:10 AM) comp.text.tex Why does this work ... \documentclass{article} \pagestyle{empty} \newsavebox{\mybox} \begin{lrbox}{\mybox} $ \frac12 $ \end{lrbox} ... JohnF

popen(tar...) 13 100 (2/23/2012 11:31:53 AM) comp.unix.programmer I want to use a tar file like an IBM partitioned dataset, i.e., a file with multiple members, from a C program. Instead of fopen("filename","r") I want something like fopen("tarfile::membername","r"). And that'... JohnF

strcpy(s,s+n) versus memmove, redux 4 22 (2/16/2012 10:42:55 AM) comp.lang.c A while back (in a thread I'm no longer seeing on my newsreader) you all convinced me strcpy(s,s+n) is a really bad idea, and I indeed changed code accordingly. Of course, I was always aware it's formally wrong... JohnF

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Wanted: the SYMBOL utility for Itanium 239 66 (12/6/2012 5:33:38 PM) comp.os.vms Hi OpenVMS group members, When trying to reach http://www.tmesis.com/symbol I get the message: "The requested URL /symbol was not found on this server." Can someone please refer me to a valid link for th... ami.kurtser (12)

Win a LaTeX Book 104 47 (12/13/2012 5:49:25 PM) comp.text.tex Dear all, I am organising a lottery and Springer have kindly agreed to donate a copy of ``LaTeX and Friends:'' http://csweb.ucc.ie/~dongen/LAF/LAF.html. Joseph Wright has kindly agreed to act a an ... dongen (455)

Command line arguments 136 31 (1/10/2013 8:58:16 PM) comp.lang.c I've just discovered that a single command line argument containing wildcards, such as *.c, is expanded to a full list of matching files before it gets to main(). That isn't really what I want (and there c... bc (2211)

OpenVMS versus Windows/GE Telemetry Control Systems. 68 32 (1/11/2013 4:08:35 AM) comp.os.vms I work for a large Water Utility. Our SCADA Telemetry Control System uses A= lpha Servers. Management wants to scrap OpenVMS and go with a SCADA System = by GE called iFix that runs on Windows. I'm told that ... cyberunlimited1 (1)

So, what will replace latex in the year 2020? 129 50 (1/12/2013 2:29:21 AM) comp.text.tex Was reading 'the Latex companion', second edition, published in 2004, and on page 5 it says ------------------- "Meanwhile, the standard Latex system will have two major advantages over anything else th... Nasser

"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C" by Damien Katz 47 33 (1/14/2013 5:55:50 PM) comp.lang.c "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C" by Damien Katz http://damienkatz.net/2013/01/the_unreasonable_effectiveness_of_c.html " It's because C is so damn successful as an abstraction over the underlying ... lmc (186)

strsup - supplementary string functions 20 18 (1/22/2013 6:14:18 PM) comp.lang.c I'm putting together a little library of supplementary string functions, strsup.c. The functions are intended to be fairly short, and to operate on char *s. They should ideally be implementable as a single... malcolm.mclean5 (727)

a good C book 15 24 (1/31/2013 9:05:15 PM) comp.lang.c Hello friends, I *really* dont want to flame a war here. But it will be helpful for me if you can suggest a good book for me. I am not a novice programmer, using fortan for ~10 years now. But from such higher... bnrj.rudra (343)

Converting Equations To Graphics 8 11 (3/24/2013 9:25:53 PM) comp.lang.c Hi, I have a question about converting mathematical equations to graphics in the C programming language: Let's say I want an image of a dragon, and I want to use mathematical equations to represent this im... briansipler (14)

where do people get ghostscript from nowadays? 9 12 (4/10/2013 10:54:53 AM) comp.text.tex ghostscript used to be released under a free-to-use licence, but wasn't debian-free (constraints about distribution). that's all changed, and current versions are released under gpl. the versions on ctan ... rf10 (3556)