--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++ Ref: E3Y00010 Date: 03/28/97 From: SARAH NUNEZ Time: 07:14am \/To: SHAMIM ISLAM (Read 5 times) Subj: Optima++ On 21 Mar 97, Shamim Islam writes to Sarah Nunez: SN>> My ears perked up. I, for one, would enjoy what Shamim has to say SN>> a See if you can encourage him to do so. Education is the key. SI> Well, actually, Sarah, I've been a resident in these here parts since SI> I think it was 1994?? or maybe '93 :) SI> But anyway. I'll post something about Optima as soon as I get the SI> chance. I forwarded that from DBASE. David Powell (the original poster) lives there, but I don't think he gets over here to C_PLUSPLUS. ... No man has a right to do as he pleases, unless he pleases to do right. --- GEcho 1.10/gamma * Origin: WordForce Mail-Only System, Republic of Texas (1:130/604) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++ Ref: E3Z00000 Date: 03/28/97 From: ANTHONY TIBBS Time: 10:17pm \/To: MIKE WALKER (Read 5 times) Subj: Streams On Mar 26 22:14, 1997, Mike Walker of 1:153/831.4 wrote: MW> Hello All! MW> I know I am probably opening up a big can of worms here. Here goes MW> anyways. My question has to do with stream output. I know that I MW> can use the traditional printf for printing formated text. Then MW> there is the streams (cout) mechanism that I have been reading MW> about lately. Can someone sum up in a nutshell the MW> advantages/disadvantages of one method over the other? Well, I am relatively new to the C++ programming language (more familur with C), but, I can offer a few. Some of these could be on either side - good or bad. It depends on what you are trying to do, and what your personal preferences are. While the printf() function is generally around two kilobytes in size (depending on the compiler and such), the cout "operator" is quite small. The printf() function is much easier to use when trying to output elaborate (such as columnur) text. The printf() function requires you to specify *exactly* what you are outputting, why cout leaves it up to the system to figure out what type of data you are outputting. (I haven't yet had it go wrong, but ...) When displaying a date, it would be much easier to use printf ("Date is %d/%d/19%d\n",month,day,year); than cout << "Date is " << month << "/" << day << "/19" << year << "\n"; Right? (Yeah, I know, I should have used %2d to make it more formal, but for this example, that will do.) --- TriED 0.10 alpha 1 * Origin: World of Power BBS <> Private <> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (1:163/545.15) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++ Ref: E3Z00001 Date: 03/27/97 From: CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Time: 11:53am \/To: ANDY BROWN (Read 5 times) Subj: Accessing Message Bases Hello Andy. 24 Mar 97 22:06, Andy Brown wrote to Tika Carr: AB> Freq MSGED41S.ZIP for the source code of MSGED.. It includes Hudson AB> format.. If you wnat to convert from Pascal to C++ then MKSM106.RAR AB> has the JAM format.. Is there any way to get these from the internet. It is just what i'm looking for, but i live in Denmark, so it will propably be a little complicated and expensive to go online at your BBS :-( Christian --- GoldED 2.50 UNREG * Origin: Kokain i Kinderg - det jo hele 4 ting (2:235/335.22) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++ Ref: E3Z00002 Date: 03/24/97 From: CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Time: 04:20pm \/To: MARK WATKINS (Read 5 times) Subj: Accessing Message Bases Hello Mark. 19 Mar 97 13:19, Mark Watkins wrote to All: MW> Does anyone know of any source out there that I can use in a program MW> to access JAM and HUDSON message bases? try the NET_DEV area. Christian --- GoldED 2.50 UNREG * Origin: Kokain i Kinderg - det jo hele 4 ting (2:235/335.22) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++ Ref: E3Z00004 Date: 03/26/97 From: DAVID NOON Time: 08:20pm \/To: PETER HAYWOOD (Read 5 times) Subj: Compilers?? On Monday, 97/03/10, Peter Haywood wrote to David Noon about "Compilers??" as follows: Hi Peter, PH> $190??? Cripes! Here in Australia it costs *alot* more than that. PH> Everything's expensive here. Tell me about it. I grew up in Melbourne. PH> I recently paid $520 for Watcom 10.6. That's about US$370. You paid too much. Why don't you try ordering directly from the USA. I did that about a year ago because I thought UK prices were too steep. I ordered IBM Visual Age C++ for OS/2 from Indelible Blue in North Carolina. When I registered that copy, IBM realised that their UK-based resellers would be undersold by cheaper US-sourced copies, so they prohibited all their resellers from exporting IBM products. Sybase/Powersoft/Watcom don't have such a restriction, so you could have bought from the USA -- or even the UK, where the compiler was also fairly cheap. I just bought the upgrade to Watcom C/C++ 11.0 for 90 quid. At that price it wasn't worth the hassle of getting an import through customs. PH> People in America don't know how good they have it! For buying technology cheaply, too right. Regards Dave * KWQ/2 1.2i * Who put Super Glue in my contact lens solution?!? --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: DoNoR/2,Woking UK (44-1483-725167) (2:440/4) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++ Ref: E3Z00005 Date: 03/29/97 From: KERRY VINSON Time: 02:52pm \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: BBS Suicide Watch NOTE: This message was originally in conference "Yet Another One" and was copied here by Kerry Vinson. ...from the home of kv_Soft! the ͸ R.A T I F A Turbo C++ U.N D E R G R O U N D QuickBasic D.E V E L O P M E N T Visual Basic M.O N A S T E R Y Turbo Assembler ; Open 24hrs for you to get that BBS fix! St.Louis,Mo,USA * 314-225-5736 * V34 * Fido 1:100/591 The above information in its entirety is what you will see when you open a file from RUDM. That original display will no longer be published. Also on the Final Exit list appears the complete ANSI collection. Those contents are hereby granted public property and will be published for general consumption. The total roster for the Final Exit appears to be up to two BBSes per day although no other sysops have requested the asylum whitherthoust must take within the first minute of April Fool's Day. MoRe to Follow And you think this isn't the funniest gawdamn thing you have ever heard? You may not yet witnessed the effects of many netmail packets and echomail bundles my friend! @ I say! From http://www.partyline.net/rudmweb is R.U.D.M. BBS in St.Louis

R.U.D.M. History

Officially went online November 26, 1993 using Wildcat 2.6. After only two weeks, the system went to TriBBS v5.0. During the TriBBS days, much third party software was produced from R.U.D.M., most of which is still in circulation but unsupported by me.

After slowly growing gastrointestinally -sick- from dealing with a real $#|+head of an author affectionately known as markie, well known for operating various scams and rackets out of the far northeastern part of the United States, change was inevitable! Therefore, R.U.D.M. began operating under Maximus 2.00 in January of 1995 and upgraded through 2.01wb and 2.02. Thanks to the generosity of Lawrence Gordon, sysop of Toast House BBS here in St.Louis, we began using Wildcat 3.9 around March of 1995 and upgraded to version 4 shortly thereafter. We have no plans to change the BBS software again anytime soon. :-)

Note that TriBBS is no longer owned by that same author and is currently being developed by Mr. Gary Price. We wish him the best of wishes and good luck for success.

In addition to Wildcat 4.1x, we use FrontDoor 2.12sw+ for the mailer, InterEcho for the tosser, Allfix! for Wildcat! for the file echo processor, and Silver Xpress as an additional offline mail door.

R.U.D.M. has been a member of ToadNet since January of '94, and FidoNet since April of '94. Originally inspired to serve both professional and amateur computer programmers in the St.Louis area, it also serves up the latest files and lots of messages. We also feature a few door games. I guess the main focus would be geeky stuff like programming and computer technical schtuff…

The BBS machine itself is an old 386dx40 DOS box with 4mb RAM running the real-mode redirectors from Windows for Workgroups. It features an EGA card and monitor, two CDROMS accessible from the BBS software, and a small 180mb hard drive to accommodate local temp files. The BBS software/files are located on a network.

We really don't care about any of this crap anymore, though. The BBS is only alive these days because I have a second line for internet access, so why not keep it going just for the hell of it?

Uhh, So what the hell is a Ratifa??

Ratifa was one of my favorite rats. She was born in Temecula, out in Southern California, and came to the midwest when we did. She had a dark golden coat with splotches of black scattered all over. Fierce in her younger years, she grew to be quite a tame rodent. The perfect girl!

She lived to be just over two years old before being killed by one of her offspring. She is now burind in an unmarked grave next to a creek in a remote part of Ellisville, Mo. We have not been to visit since her untimely passing, but we do think of her from time to time.

Ok, so that's a bit dramatized... She was still one helluva pet! And as a tribute to her existance, her name will stay alive in this abstract place we call cyberspace... Rest in peace, sweetheart...

Last updated 02/02/97 -- hits since 12/28/96

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Twas the code.. Gee, Larry, what do you say to a place you can always have a small web page? When the time is right I'm going to run all night and yes. Future predictions coming true shortly will happen like this. If I have disk space, you have a free web page at www.kerry.vinson.com. Especially welcome are Kathy Ireland, Cybil Shepherd, the healthy bodies found at fitness-beach.com, and something universally related or so. Time for mentally to take a growing leap past a pain. But as they say comes comet for Final Exit. Wow let's just pfhreak the pfhuck out! Final Exit * WCE 2.1G1/2457 * oh my god the end is near i can feel it --- InterEcho 1.19 * Origin: R.U.D.M. BBS in St.Louis * 314-225-5736 * v34 (1:100/591) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++ Ref: E3Z00006 Date: 03/29/97 From: CLIFF RHODES Time: 07:42pm \/To: JOE CANHOTO (Read 5 times) Subj: file size --> Joe Canhoto wrote to Cliff Rhodes <-- CR>file.seekg(0L, ios::end); JC>There is a problem with this method which can be worked JC>around if you're using Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0 or later. JC>It seems that microsoft decided not to allow use of seekg JC>for the time being (weirdos). Are you sure about that? Isn't seekg() still part of the draft standard? If true, that is bizarre. JC>Here's something for you VC++ JC>users.... JC>while (cin.get()!=OL); This is going to be SLOW on a large file! X CMPQwk 1.42 1692 X"I can resist everything except temptation." - Oscar lde --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: COMM Port OS/2 juge.com 204.89.247.1 (281) 980-9671 (1:106/2000) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++ Ref: E3Z00007 Date: 03/30/97 From: HERMAN SCHONFELD Time: 08:03am \/To: ALEXANDER DERAZHNE (Read 5 times) Subj: Bit Fields AD>Hello, dear Herman! AD>Sunday March 23 1997 09:15, Herman Schonfeld wrote to Rick Bischoff: RB>> Does anyone know how to declare a variable that holds only one bit RB>> of information.. (You know only two values (0 or 1)) ??? HS> struct bit_field { HS> int bit_1 : 1; AD> ^ HS> int bits_2_to_5 : 4; AD> ^^^ ^ HS> int bit_6 : 1; AD> ^^^ ^ HS> int bits_7_to_16 : 10; AD> ^^^ HS> } bit_var; AD> I'm afraid, it wrong. First three lines requred comma (',') instead AD>of AD>semicolon (';'), then, type declarations ("int") in last lines must be AD>absent. That was taken out of my own compilable code. AD>Alexander ... I like the 486 tower. Does it come in red? --- Ezycom V1.48g0 01fd016b * Origin: Fox's Lair BBS Bris Aus +61-7-38033908 V34+ Node 2 (3:640/238) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++ Ref: E3Z00008 Date: 03/30/97 From: HERMAN SCHONFELD Time: 08:04am \/To: TIM ESSELENS (Read 5 times) Subj: Video TE>Is there enyone who could help me with the following prob. TE>ok, I'm new in c++ but.. Beter late then never :)) TE>i'd like to make a demo for my bbs, TE>but i can't put out one pixel in vga mode... TE>(i even don't know how to put the program in vga mode) TE>is there someone who could send me like a source code or a manual TE>that could help me in my quest ta make a demo ? Which compiler are you using? And what are you aiming for? Protected mode, or Real mode? TE>Greets... ... I don't have the time for a hobby. I have a computer. --- Ezycom V1.48g0 01fd016b * Origin: Fox's Lair BBS Bris Aus +61-7-38033908 V34+ Node 2 (3:640/238) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++ Ref: E3Z00009 Date: 03/30/97 From: HERMAN SCHONFELD Time: 08:06am \/To: JASON HENDRIKS (Read 5 times) Subj: Bit Fields RB> Does anyone know how to declare a variable that holds RB> only one bit of information.. (You know only two values RB> (0 or 1)) ??? JH>A very useful header file.. JH>// BOOLEAN.H JH>enum boolean{false, true}; JH>inline boolean operator!(boolean bState) JH>{ return (bState == true ? false : true); } That would be pretty useless. So much overhead for a little boolean variable. ... A program is used to turn data into error messages. --- Ezycom V1.48g0 01fd016b * Origin: Fox's Lair BBS Bris Aus +61-7-38033908 V34+ Node 2 (3:640/238)