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  1. Thread: cursor movement

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    I'm sure windows command prompt did allow for...

    I'm sure windows command prompt did allow for pipes, perhaps I'm just getting old, however..

    I tested it under XP and it is fine but under Win98 it dosent work :-( Perhaps I have just got a badly...
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    Does the '16 lines of code a day' fact not also...

    Does the '16 lines of code a day' fact not also include design, testing and distribution time.

    Statistics are dodgy.

    Brif
  3. Thread: cursor movement

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    This maybe off the point but I've seen something...

    This maybe off the point but I've seen something similar before.

    Do just want to view output from a program that has scrolled off the screen? If so you could pipe it into more like this:
    ...
  4. Thread: Chat BOT

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    Hi, think the original one was 'ELIZA'. Sure...

    Hi,

    think the original one was 'ELIZA'. Sure the code is available out there somewhere on google. I once wrote a 'plugin' for it but it was in prolog so not much use,

    Good luck with this,...
  5. Thread: Directory listing

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    Directory listing

    Hi,

    I wrote this recursive function to 'pretty print' directory listings but for some reason it only recurses down through one directory?




    void recursive_dir(DIR* directory,int tabs){
    ...
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    Hi, I saw this program and decided to try to...

    Hi,

    I saw this program and decided to try to write a pretty printer for directory listings. I wrote this recursive function but for some reason it only recurses down through one directory?



    ...
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    Thanks Prelude, youve sent me on the first...

    Thanks Prelude,

    youve sent me on the first steps to enlightenment,

    brif
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    Hi, Just out of intrest what happens if you...

    Hi,

    Just out of intrest what happens if you dont free memory allocated in a program. I thought that the OS frees all resources given to a program on exit. So by this logic it would be ok not to...
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    Thanks alot for that one. It was just what I was...

    Thanks alot for that one. It was just what I was looking for, led me here:

    http://www.aiksaurus.com/kde/

    Cheers again

    Brif
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    Sorry, think there may be a missunderstanding ;-)...

    Sorry, think there may be a missunderstanding ;-)

    I was looking for a thesaurus that could be used alongside a c++ program (without using network stuff!). I could use the one on my bookshelf...
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    thesaurus resource for programs?

    Hi,

    I was wondering if anyone new of a 'free' thesaurus resource that was eithrer written in c/c++ or could easily be interfaced. By this I mean having the functionality to be able to give it a...
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    pointer to pointer ok?

    Hi,

    I remember reading a while back that pointers to pointers was in some way bad programming practice:

    e.g. A string swapping function



    void swap(char** a, char ** b)
    {
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    Hi Aaron Thanks for the reply. I'm afraid I...

    Hi Aaron

    Thanks for the reply. I'm afraid I have not got a connection to the internet available to view it online, so I am looking to have it for offline use.

    Unfortunately I think it is quite...
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    Downloading windows platform sdk

    Hi,

    I'm trying to get my hands on the Windows Platform SDK. Unfortunately the only way it seams to download this from the windows site is too install a 'Windows update control'. As I'm using a...
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    Structures and stream reads

    Hi,
    I'm having trouble understanding a problem I came across when trying to read a bitmap header into a structure. I thought it was possible to read the header straight into a structure using the...
  16. Thread: fscanf on sun's

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    fscanf on sun's

    hi,

    have read of compatibility problems with fscanf. I have written a program which uses fscanf on windows. When I ran it on linux it worked fine. However I'm wanting to mainly use it on solaris...
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    Also the string should be terminated with '\0' to...

    Also the string should be terminated with '\0' to make your printf look nice

    str[i] = '\0'

    aswell as

    curr->data = (char *) malloc(5 * sizeof(char));

    to allocate memory for a 5 char string
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    "There is no doubt that the brain is the be all...

    "There is no doubt that the brain is the be all and end all. Neurology has shown which areas of the brain controll what. "

    Then surely there is no point in having this debate, if the brain is...
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    "A person IS just a brain, your personality,...

    "A person IS just a brain, your personality, memories are all stored in your brain, your feelings, senses, everything is processes in your brain forming the person that you are. That much has been...
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    Its my impression that neural nets are just fancy...

    Its my impression that neural nets are just fancy statistical estimators,(although it could be argued that this is what the brain is aswell?) If you have enough sample points then its easy to find a...
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    Todays approaches to AI seam to only work on very...

    Todays approaches to AI seam to only work on very specific problems, most of which are just clever ways of cutting down search spaces (eg CSP's,GA's neural nets) and dont seam to have much to do with...
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    passing thought: Quantum singularity means all...

    passing thought:

    Quantum singularity means all the rules of physics break down,

    Where do you want to go today?

    <---:-(

    does santa claus travel faster than light, and if so he must be...
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    Hi, just thinking there that it may also be...

    Hi,

    just thinking there that it may also be usefull if you told us what you were going to do with the solution,

    is it not common in graphics to turn this sort of equation into a parametric...
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