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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++           Ref: EEX00002 Date: 10/24/97
From: TOM TORFS                                             Time: 10:30am
\/To: VADIM RYZHANKOV                                     (Read 2 times)
Subj: Turbo C

Vadim Ryzhankov wrote in a message to Steven Lei:
 JE>> puts("You have Just been Stung\n");
 VR>       ^^^^ It is a Turbo C
Nopes, it's ANSI C :-)
greetz,
Tom
tomtorfs@mail.dma.be
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++           Ref: EEX00003 Date: 10/27/97
From: STEVEN LEI                                            Time: 06:42pm
\/To: PAUL WANKADIA                                       (Read 2 times)
Subj: Prototyping

While Steven was reading other messages, Paul Wankadia wrote:
<your examples...>
Well... I kinda know just about all you've said already... because
I've already learned them... but my teacher's about to teach them
to us now...  :)
Now is the time to "open" and "close" files...  :)
                                Steven Lei
From: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
E-mail = SpewMuffin@Juno.Com
... Isn't Physics fun!
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++           Ref: EEX00004 Date: 10/27/97
From: STEVEN LEI                                            Time: 06:42pm
\/To: VADIM RYZHANKOV                                     (Read 2 times)
Subj: Turbo C

While Steven was reading other messages, Vadim Ryzhankov wrote:
 
 SL> That, I don't know...  never used sleep before...  would it be under
 SL> dos.h or stdlib.h?
 VR> ^^^^^ It is under dos.h such as "delay (unsigned)".
dos.h?  Kinda figures it would have been there...  :)
Oh, one thing...  what command would you use to "close" a ASCII text file
after you're finished writing to it?
 
 SL> From: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
 VR> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Well! I am from Ukraine.
                                Steven Lei
From: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
E-mail = SpewMuffin@Juno.Com
... Friends are family you choose yourself.
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++           Ref: EEX00005 Date: 10/27/97
From: STEVEN LEI                                            Time: 06:42pm
\/To: THOMAS MAEDER                                       (Read 2 times)
Subj: for()

While Steven was reading other messages, Thomas Maeder wrote:
 TM> I don't think that you can declare variables of different  types  like
 TM> this.
I thought I remembered doing something like that before...  but I might
be wrong... <shrug>
If not, just declare before the loop.
                                Steven Lei
From: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
E-mail = SpewMuffin@Juno.Com
... I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++           Ref: EEX00006 Date: 10/27/97
From: CAMERON CLARK                                         Time: 03:58pm
\/To: E. H.                                               (Read 2 times)
Subj: Re: image decoding

EH> How do you decode pictures in jpeg format in c++ ?
    Look for the IJG's free source code on the web.
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++           Ref: EEX00007 Date: 10/28/97
From: PAUL WANKADIA                                         Time: 08:58pm
\/To: JERRY COFFIN                                        (Read 2 times)
Subj: Goldilocks and the Three Pointers

Goldilocks and the Three Pointers
Once upon a time there were 3 pointers. The Papa pointer pointed to a big
array. The Mama pointer pointed to a double precision floating-point. And the
Baby pointer pointed to a little integer. One day they all entered a
function, and a little lost pointer named Goldilocks entered their house
(affectionately known as main()). Goldilocks was hungry so she called
strcpy() to copy Papa's array into herself. Her calls to malloc() slowed the
main program to a near standstill, but Goldie didn't care. She then went for
Mama's double precision floating-point. But before she could get Baby's
integer, the three pointers came back, and they were so angry at Goldie's
thievery that they caused a run-time error and the whole house caved in.
The above actually happened. I'm not kidding. Really.
In other words: OH MY GOD MY PROGRAM CRASHED AGAIN, IT WAS DUE THIS
MORNING AND IT DOESN'T WORK! I HATE C. I NEVER WANT TO SEE ANOTHER
POINTER AS LONG AS I LIVE. DOWN WITH KERNIGHAN AND RITCHIE!
--Tina "no, I'm not stressed...really" M.
P.S. After I wrote this I got the %&^%*$ program to work. I think it
wanted to spite me.
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++           Ref: EEX00008 Date: 10/25/97
From: RORY STREET                                           Time: 10:47am
\/To: CAMERON CLARK                                       (Read 2 times)
Subj: Re: Java++

In a message of <16.10.97>, Cameron Clark (1:3811/350) writes: 
 RS>> GW> Note that it is Visual J++, which is _not_ Java according to
 RS>> Sun. GW> Which is why Sun have initiated a lawsuit against Microsoft
 RS>> over
 CC> the
 RS>> GW> matter.
 RS>> Keep me up to date on what happends and thanks..
 CC> Unlike C++ (poor attempt to relate post to topic), Java is not an
 CC> open standard. This means that only Sun has a say so when it comes
 CC> to additions and alterations of the language.
:) Okay and with Java can this only be run under Unix as done with GNU C or 
can you run it under any OS that takes it?
 CC> MS has add a _clearly_ non-platform dependant syntax to the
 CC> language. Using /** */ comment, it allows for DLL's to be included
 CC> and their functions to be called.
That can't be to bad?
 CC> C++ suffers from vague interpretations of the standard, and a slue
 CC> of different packages 'standard' to only certain operating systems.
 CC> I would hate to see Java follow the same pitfalls as C++.
I know I think JAVA should have put a claus in the contract that companies 
that change the standard are liable to be sued and banned from developing 
..
Cya!
Rory Street
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++           Ref: EEX00009 Date: 10/25/97
From: MICHAEL RATHBURN                                      Time: 04:52pm
\/To: CHRIS DOWNS                                         (Read 2 times)
Subj: Re: Help Please

Hi Chris Downs, hope you are having a nice day
22-Oct-97 06:49:10, Chris Downs wrote to Michael Rathburn
          Subject: Re: Help Please
 MR>> Please if you have time please look at this code and tell me what
 MR>> is going wrong all it is supposed to do is get the user to enter
 MR>> the quoted char,int and float check they have input the correct
 MR>> data then output the data but the float check cocks up please
 MR>> tell me why.
 CD> FASCINATING!!
 CD> First off, there were some problems with the logic of the program.
 CD> You didn't use braces around some of the else deals so that
 CD> program control didn't flow as I suppose you expected.  But that's
 CD> not what was so interesting.
 MR>> float pi;
 MR>> cout << "\n\tPlease enter pi ie:-3.142  "; cin >> pi; if(pi <
 MR>> 3.142  || pi > 3.142 ) { cout << "\n\tWrong Formula"; continue; }
 CD> When I ran this thing, I would type in 3.142 and the program
 CD> thinks that pi is either less than 3.142 or greater than 3.142.
This is what I didn't understand I changed it to cover a range and it
worked ill paste in the revised code
---->
snip><
//*******************************************************************
//*                chap2x3.cpp
//*                Programmer: Michael Rathburn
//*      Date 24/10/97
//*                Version 2
//*******************************************************************
#include <iostream.h>
#include <iomanip.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
char ch;
int number;
float pi;
void main()
{
        clrscr();
        while (1)
        {
                cout << "\n\tPlease enter the letter A   ";
                cin  >> ch;
                if (ch != 'A')                   //if not "A" print error
                {
                cout << "\n\tWrong Letter";
                continue;
                }
                else
                cout << "\n\tPlease enter 21  ";
                cin  >> number;
                if (number != 21)                //if not 21 print error
                {
                cout << "\n\tWrong Integer";
                continue;
                }
                else
                cout << "\n\tPlease enter pi ie:-3.142  ";
                cin >>pi;
                if( pi > 3.143  || pi < 3.141 )  //use a range to to test the 
float
                {
                cout << "\n\tWrong Formula";
                continue;
                }
                else
                cout << "\n\tYou entered the letter " << ch;
                cout << "\n\tYou entered the number " << number;
                cout << setiosflags(ios::fixed)
                          << setiosflags(ios::showpoint)    //show decimal 
point
                          << setprecision(3)                //3 points after 
the decimal
                          << setw(5);                       // set the field 
width to five
                cout << "\n\tYou Entered pi " << pi;
                break;
        }
                cout <<"\n\n\n\n\t\tGoodbye!";
}
*/
 CD> There are two ways to make it work right.  One is to declare pi to
 CD> be a double.  The other is to cast your numeric constants to
 CD> floats.
 CD> So the following will (consistently?) work
 CD> if (pi < 3.142f || pi > (float)3.142) { ... }
 CD> I would love to hear a good explanation as to why 3.142(double) !=
 CD> 3.142(float)
 CD> -!- Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 
 CD> --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 
 -=> Yours sincerely, Michael Rathburn <=-
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++           Ref: EEY00000 Date: 10/28/97
From: DAVE LEWIS                                            Time: 11:10pm
\/To: ALL                                                 (Read 2 times)
Subj: Borland C++ 4.5

I'm new to C++ and I have just purchased version 4.5 and I have some 
oblems.
1-If I go to the upper left corner of the output window and right click I am
not able to chose to print the window.  I know you can in 4.52. (which I use 
at school)
2-If I have a program that outputs more than 24 lines or so it seems to 
overflow the output buffer and I can't scroll back to see the beginning. Also 
a problem that is not visible at school on version 4.52.
I have tried copping a working version of 4.52 and it has the same problem as 
4.5 unlike the 4.52 version that I use at school.
So I'm assuming it is in an installed dll file or maybe in teh registry. (yes 
I'm running windows95). I've also run the three patches off Borland's web 
age
that are for 4.5
HELP PLEASE
Thanks in advance
Dave
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 203 C++           Ref: EEY00001 Date: 10/28/97
From: E. H.                                                 Time: 11:16pm
\/To: CAMERON CLARK                                       (Read 2 times)
Subj: Re: image decoding

EH> How do you decode pictures in jpeg format in c++ ?
CC> 
CC>     Look for the IJG's free source code on the web.
Thanks
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