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Relevant comic 0 64 (1/16/2008 11:39:07 AM) comp.lang.c Wise words. Richard ... rlb

C89 Standard for Britons 51 60 (6/14/2007 1:28:46 PM) comp.lang.c It was reported in another group that people with an address in the UK can join Manchester Central Library on line, and when you've received your card, you can read and/or download any BSI Standard for free, as... rlb

Clean function declaration 9 40 (7/8/2003 3:11:27 PM) comp.lang.functional Recently I downloaded the Clean compiler, and the Clean book PDFs, from . I triedd doing the exercises, and of course, everything breaks down at the second one... Exercise 2 (chapter l.9) asks you to define ... Richard

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Infrequently asked questions 45 47 (10/15/2008 10:46:20 PM) comp.lang.c In his web pages, D. E. Knuth wrote this: (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/iaq.html) Infrequently Asked Questions 1. Why does my country have the right to be occupying Iraq? 2. Why should my... jacob4111 (1334)

How to use H-files 13 48 (10/16/2008 8:29:37 PM) comp.lang.c Hallo allemaal, This is my first message to this group. Until now I mainly wrote programs in Turbo Pascal. But now I'm involved in a project were knowledge of C is needed. I'm not unfamiliar with C, but the l... Ruud.Baltissen592 (59)

text reading 32 53 (10/20/2008 1:11:38 PM) comp.lang.c I am interested in writing a numeric text reader. This only reads numbers of securities and stores them. Nice practice. I have determined that these functions are needed. isalpha, isdigit, isspace, an... nospam116 (1187)

Pascal -> C 18 50 (10/21/2008 8:38:46 AM) comp.lang.c Hallo allemaal, In my Pascal program I gathered all messages in one function. All messages have their own number. One of the advantages of this method is that if someone wants to change a messages, he only ha... Ruud.Baltissen592 (59)

rand() % n Revisited 19 53 (10/23/2008 1:04:39 AM) comp.lang.c Quick rand() question: I know you're not supposed to use "rand() % 1024" for instance, because it focuses on the lower bits. However, it seems to me that given that the argument is not a power of two (or near... rfife (7)

yow 8 56 (10/23/2008 9:40:16 PM) comp.lang.c Not that it's really important, but I notice that M-x yow always returns the same quotation. Is that a bug, or am I doing it wrong? Phil -- The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to t... thefatphil_demunged (1558)

fwrite output is not efficient (fast) ? 25 45 (10/24/2008 7:03:33 AM) comp.lang.c Hi, recently some C programmer told me that using fwrite/fopen functions are not efficient because the output that they do to the file is actually buffered and gets late in writing. Is that true? regards, ..... abubakarm (11)

pageup/pagedwn implementation 27 60 (10/28/2008 2:22:56 AM) comp.lang.c Hi all, I am looking for some sample code which shows how to implement pageup/ pagedown feature using C language similar to the ones we encounter in our mobile devices.In mobiles if we dont have enough view spa... ssubba (241)

Judge the encode systm used by the file. 20 49 (10/29/2008 7:32:40 AM) comp.lang.c Dear all, I want to judge the file's encoding system correctly, i.e., belong to utf-8, ansi, gbk, gb2312, gb18030, or iso-8859-a, and so on. Who can give me some hints on the fortran implimentation of this is... hongyi.zhao (486)

Where did my console output go? 27 52 (10/30/2008 10:08:15 AM) comp.lang.c Hello, I am writing code that uses a DLL which is supposed to print to console some useful information but for some reason it is not doing so. The environment is a bit complex to explain but here it goes: - I... carlosm.upm (2)