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system: You are Tim Hutzler, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Randal Kohutek about "Re: Newbie =)".

They wrote:
TH>An inexpensive text ($20) that I have read one chapter comes
TH>highly reccomended by collegues of mine. "C++ From The Ground Up."
TH>I can't remember the author. It is clear, concise, really well
TH>written. I don't know if it will address your above issues, but
TH>you can learn a lot from it. I borrowed it to read up on
TH>'overloading operators.'
RK>I was thinking about picking up "C++ for Dummies," but I looked
RK>through it, and already know everything that this basic book
RK>covers.
RK>I guess I'll have to look into "c++ from the ground up" - Thanks!

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assistant: I think IDG books (they make the '[fill in the blank] for Dummies')
are for those who really underestimate themselves. [grin]
I think you will be glad you did...
system: You are Tim Hutzler, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jonathan De Boyne Pollar about "Re: sending AT commands".

They wrote:
JDBP>ofstream modem("COM3", ios::out|ios::binary) ;
JDBP>modem << "ATZ\r" << flush ;

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assistant: Thanks, I tried that out. But I get a linker error.
I am compiling for DOS. I am using Borland 3.0 for DOS.
What I would like to see is a simple application demonstrating a
functional, working example of manipulating the modem. I only need to
send AT-dialing commands to automate banking transactions and such.
A demonstration program from snippits would be great. I have
SNIP95xx, and there's nothing like what I described there. [sigh]
Any ideas?
best regards.
system: You are Pat Glenn, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ray Gear about "Borland c++ v 4.52".

They wrote:
RG>I have just started to use Borland c++ and have a problem
RG>with the first OWL programs that I have tried. I entered
RG>the programs from "Teach yourself Borland C++ 4 in 21
RG>Days". Instead of entering the .rc files from the book I
RG>used the Resource Workshop to create them. The first
RG>program ran but did not display the menu created in RW. On
RG>examing the .rh file produced by RW there was the line
RG>    #define MAINMENU     1
RG>I removed this line, recompiled the program and it worked???
RG>
RG>The second program I entered was to display a dialog box.
RG>Again I used the Resource Workshop to produce the dialog.
RG>The program crashed with a GPF. On checking the .rh file
RG>there was a line
RG>    #define DIALOG1      1
RG>I removed this line and recompiled the program. It worked.
RG>
RG>I'm sure I must be doing something wrong either in the C++
RG>code or in the Resource Workshop. As I am new to C++ I'm
RG>not sure where to look. Can any one help???

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assistant: Ray,
    That one took me several months to figure out... There seems to be a
slight bug (undocumented feature?) with the resource compiler and I found
by reading and reading several after market books (it's not in Borlands
documentation, at least not that I could find at the time) that it is
necessary to ensure that the following lines are placed in the RC file.
    #ifdef RC_INVOKED  //Place at the beginning of file
    // Other lines of resource code
    #endif  // Place at the end of the file
    Note: If you add more resources to the file, more stuff on the menu,
another dialog box, etc. You MUST manually move the "#endif" to the end
of the file listing or you will have problems similar to what you describe.
    BTW, Unless you have the resources defined elsewhere in the code,
you should NOT remove the define lines from the RH file. If problems
persist, I would take another look at how you are calling your
functions. (Maybe you could post a short snippet) If your program's
causing a GPF, I would suspect that the problem is not going to be in the
necessary declaration of a resource.
    Later, Pat Glenn
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system: You are Brian Wood, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "multichar constant".

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assistant: I found a quick fix for now, but I'm still curious about why an
expression like '/a' could be evaluated two different ways on the same
machine, using different compilers.
By fooling around and doing stuff like this...
cout << "Expression /a in hex = " << hex << '/a' << endl;
and checking the output, I've realized that Microsoft v 8.00 is 'seeing'
this two char constant right-to-left, while Borland sees it
left-to-right.  Adding a case 'a/': fixes the problem for now.
   while(--argc && **argv++) {
      cout << "command-line switch = ";
      switch(*(int*) *argv) {
         case '/a':  case 'a/':
            cout << "/a" << endl;
         break;
         default:
            cout << *argv << " (unknown)" << endl;
         break;
      }
   }
I suppose the problem is "undefined", "non-portable" solutions
implemented by each vendor on how to handle multi-byte character
constants??  Is there a simple, portable way to do the above?
L8r,
bw
... If all goes well, you've overlooked something!
system: You are Auke Reitsma, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jonathan De Boyne Pollard about "moderation and the echos".

They wrote:
BS>>> a)  Candidates may either be nominated without
AR>> I nominate Jonathan de Boyne Pollard, Tom Torfs and Roger Scudder.
JdBP> I am happy to accept the nomination for moderator here, since one
JdBP> is needed and I want the echo to continue.
JdBP> But I don't want to burden everyone with a long and boring
JdBP> popularity contest.  I'm a strong believer in moderation issues
JdBP> being as small a part of echomail bandwidth as possible.  So (as

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assistant: Hi Jonathan,
On 15 Jan 98, 14:56, you wrote to Auke Reitsma
Basically I agree with that. However, IMHO, a moderator needs to be rather
visibly present. So if electing you as moderator is a requirement to make you
show your presence here ... ;-)
Greetings from
 _____
 /_|__|  Auke Reitsma, Delft, The Netherlands.
/  | \  --------------------------------------
system: You are Adam Majer, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Michael Rathburn about "Wav files".

They wrote:
MR>Hi All , hope you are having a nice day
MR>I am attempting to write a program with Borland Builder the Problem I have
MR>come up against is playing a Wav sound file without shoe the windows media
MR>player is there a coded routine available to play wavs through the
MR>program ? if so could someone tell me how to get hold of it.

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assistant: There's a routine in Multimedia Windows DLL (comes with windows). It's
the  _sndPlaySound_. You have to include mmsystem.h for this function.
 * SLMR 2.1a * --T-A+G-L-I+N-E--+M-E-A+S-U-R+I-N-G+--G-A+U-G-E--
system: You are Adam Majer, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ray Gear about "Borland c++ v 4.52".

They wrote:
RG>        #define MAINMENU     1
RG>I removed this line, recompiled the program and it worked???
RG>The second program I entered was to display a dialog box. Again I used the
RG>Resource Workshop to produce the dialog. The program crashed with a GPF.
RG>king the .rh file there was a line
RG>        #define DIALOG1      1
RG>I removed this line and recompiled the program. It worked.

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assistant: n
I still use Borland C++ 3.1 but I can probably help. Post the code for
one of the applications. (It's like shooting in the dark with no code
;-)
 * SLMR 2.1a * My reality check just bounced.
system: You are Christian Felde, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "sort.cpp".

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assistant: Can't say I see what's wrong with this. There's no error in compiling it, and
when I try to run it, there's no output, and no input I give does anything.
So then I must brake it with ctrl+c to return to command line.
[start of source]
// sort.cpp
#include <iostream.h>
void main()
{
        const int MAX = 10;
        int table[MAX];
        int i;
        int temp, test = 0;
        cout << "\n\n\tThis program demostrates sorting array "
             << "elements into\n\tdescending order\n\n"
             << "\tEnter ten integers:\n";
        for (i = 0; i < MAX; i++)
        {
                cout << i + 1 << ".: ";
                cin >> table[i];
        }
        cout << "\n\n\tThe unsorted array is: ";
        for (i = 0; i < MAX; i++)
                cout << table[i] << " ";
        //sort
        while(test == 0)
        {
                test = 1;
                for (i = 0; i < (MAX - 1); i++)
                {
                        if (table[i] < table[i + 1])
                        {
                                temp = table[i];
                                table[i] = table[i + 1];
                                table[i + 1] = temp;
                                test = 0;
                        }
                }
        }
        cout << "\n\n\tThe sorted array is: ";
        for (i = 0; i < MAX; i++)
                cout << table[i] << " ";
}
[end of source]
Anyone who can help me?
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system: You are Christian Felde, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Thomas Maeder about "strcmpi error?".

They wrote:
CF>> >If you are a C++ newbie, you'd better not use these C string functi
CF>> >if you don't have to. Use the string class.
CF>> Hmm.. well.. the book I'm using (Instant C++ Programming) isn't a C
>I  don't  know  the  book.  But  if it's no more than a few years old,
>there's no excuse for  teaching  using  char  arrays  instead  of  the
>Standard string class.
>I'd suggest that you just skip the "string" stuff in the book.

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assistant: Well... found out that strcasecmp() did the same jobb as strcmpi().
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system: You are Christian Felde, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "This work's, but...".

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assistant: This program works, but it seams like when I give more the 3 char's in to
array 2, I get this: "Segmentation fault (core dumped)"
Here's the source:
[start]
// chararray.cpp
#include <iostream.h>
void main()
{
        char array[2][10];
        cout << "Enter array 1: ";
        cin >> array[1];
        cout << "Enter array 2: ";
        cin >> array[2];
        cout << "Array 1: " << array[1] << endl;
        cout << "Array 2: " << array[2] << endl;
}
[eof]
and here's the error:
[start]
sco-systems:~/work/code$ chararray
Enter array 1: test1
Enter array 2: test2
Array 1: test1
Array 2: test2
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
sco-systems:~/work/code$
[eof]
Thanks for all help...
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system: You are Randal Kohutek, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Neil Ferguson about "Newbie =)".

They wrote:
NF>This is a serious book!  It has all the stuff from basic C++ (DOS) to
NF>Multiple-Document-Interfaces (MDI - windows)
NF>Right - I would STRONGLY recommend getting hold of a copy of Borland C+
NF>Windows v4.5 'cos we got it free on a Cover CD here - full version - al
NF>you to build DOS apps, Win16s (3.x/386) AND Win32s ('95+NT)...  If you
NF>get hold of a copy I suppose I could probably mail it to ya - cost a bi
NF>tho'...
NF>Anyway - whether you want the compiler or not - mail me for a chat! - H

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assistant: I see ... hefty book =) I'm not so sure of whether or not I'm ready to
dive into windows programming yet - if I am, then I'd probably start
with Visual Basic --- well, maybe not. $299 is a little hefty for VB.
Cool ... do you have an idea where I might buy the book, and how much
it costs? Mailing the book to me while you use the compiler would be
against copyright ... I think. Thanks,
Randal Kohutek - slip42@juno.com
oh yea ... I'm 15, living it up in colorado springs, CO.
system: You are Tom Torfs, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Roger Scudder about "char to string".

They wrote:
VK>> char stringvar[90];
VK>> char charvar;
VK>> strcat(stringvar, charvar);
EL> strcat takes *char as parameters... so try
EL> strcat(stringvar, &charvar);
RS>  That's the first time I ever say anybody do that.
RS>  Very nice solution!  I can't understand why I never see
RS>  anyone using it.

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assistant: Roger Scudder wrote in a message to Eric Londaits:
Because it doesn't work. The char may or may not be followed by a nul-byte.
Most likely it will not.
Try this instead:
strncat(stringvar, &charvar, 1);
Although I still doubt this is conforming code...
greetings,
Tom
tomtorfs@village.uunet.be
system: You are Frank Schmid, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Roger Scudder about "Re: char to string".

They wrote:
VK>>> char stringvar[90];
VK>>> char charvar;
VK>>> strcat(stringvar, charvar);
EL>> strcat takes *char as parameters... so try
EL>> strcat(stringvar, &charvar);
>  Very nice solution!  I can't understand why I never see
>  anyone using it.

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assistant: Hi Roger,
Because it doesn't work !
strcat copies the string beginning at the address of charvar until it
discovers a NUL-character, but where would it be... some 1 or 2 characters
away or even 1k or more ?????
if you use strcat you MUST use a NUL-terminated string.
bye
Frank
system: You are Ray Gear, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Pat Glenn about "Borland c++ v 4.52".

They wrote:
PG>     #ifdef RC_INVOKED  //Place at the beginning of file
PG>     // Other lines of resource code
PG>     #endif  // Place at the end of the file
PG>
PG> functions. (Maybe you could post a short snippet) If your program's

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assistant: Pat,
        Thanks for the reply. I appreciate you taking the time to help.
 I tried to put this into my .rc file but it made no difference.
 The program will compile and run but the menu does not appear in the
 window.
 Following is a copy of the .rh file produced by Resource Workshop
 #define EXITMENU       1
 #define CM_EXIT        24310
 #define CM_HEIGHT26    106
 #define CM_HEIGHT20    105
 #define CM_HEIGHT14    104
 #define CM_HEIGHT10    103
 #define CM_HEIGHT8     101
 The first line seems to be the problem. With that removed the menu
 appears in the window. Following is part of the code to set up the window
 sub class and assign the menu.
 #include <owl\applicat.h>
 #include <owl\dc.h>
 #include <framewin.h>
 #include <scroller.h>
 #include <owl\window.h>
 #include <owl\window.rh>
 #include <stdio.h>
#include "window2.rh"         // This is the file above
class TMyWindow : public TWindow
{
public:
        TMyWindow(Twindow* parent = 0);
        ~TMyWindow();
protected:
        virtual void SetupWindow();
        BOOL CanClose();
        void CmExit();
        void CmHeight8();
        // rest of menu items as above line
private:
        TFont * pFont;
        void newFont(int);
        DECLARE_RESPONSE_TABLE(TMyWindow);
};
DEFINE_RESPONSE_TABLE1(TMyWindow, TWindow)
        EV_COMMAND(CM_EXIT, CmExit),
        EV_COMMAND(CM_HEIGHT8, CmHeight8,
        //rest of menu options as above line
END_RESPONSE_TABLE;
class TMyApp : public TApplication
{
public:
        TMyApp() : TApplication() {}
        void InitMainWindow()
        {
                SetMainWindow(new TFrameWindow(0, "Title", new TMyWindow));
                GetMainWindow()->AssignMenu("EXITMENU");
                EnableBWCC(TRUE);
        }
};
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system: You are Ray Gear, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Adam Majer about "Borland c++ v 4.52".

They wrote:
AM> I still use Borland C++ 3.1 but I can probably help. Post the code for
AM> one of the applications. (It's like shooting in the dark with no code
AM> ;-)

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assistant: Thanks for your reply
I have posted some of the code in a reply to Pat Glenn. If you look at that
may be it will help you see what I am doing wrong.
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system: You are Herbert Bushong, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Brian Wood about "'/a'=?".

They wrote:
::> example command line:
::>         C:\THISPROG.EXE /a
::> while (--argc && **argv++) {
::>          // case '/a': isn't evaluated consistently
::>          // Best way around this?
::>          cout << "\narg entered was " << endl;
::>          switch (*(int*) *argv) {
::>              case '/a':
::>                  cout << "/a" << endl;
::>              break;
::>          default:
::>              cout << *argv << " (unknown)" << endl;
::>              break;
::>          }
::> }

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assistant: First off Brian,
  '/a'  is not valid. The differences in compilers you are see is the
ompiler
attempting to work with your mistake. Single quotes are use to surround
single characters (normal or escaped):  '/', 'a', '\0', '\x0D', etc...
int parms = argc - 1;
char *ptr = argv[parms];
   while (parms-- && ptr)
      {
        cout << "arg entered was: "
        if (ptr == '/')
        {
           switch (++ptr)
           {
               case 'a':
               case 'A':  cout << "/a" << endl; break;
               default:   cout << (--ptr) << "(unknown)" << endl;
           }
         }
         else
            cout << ptr << "(unknown unswitched)" << endl;
         ptr = argv[parms];
      }
#  Herbert Bushong    harchon@centuryinter.net       [TEAM OS/2]
-  Blackbeard's BBS   Intelec: 239:600/0
+  Fido: 1:19/19      http://www.intelec.com/software/
system: You are Herbert Bushong, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Tim Hutzler about "DOS border/window li".

They wrote:
::> ::>My local BBS has SNIP9519. Would that be too out of date?
::> HB>Don't know if VidMgr is in that one (the name looks wrong too).  I
::> HB>believe the the web site is www.snippets.org (Bob Stout may chime in
::> HB>and correct me if  I'm wrong; he maintains snippets and can be found
::> HB>here and in the C echo...)
::> Well, it's not in SNIP95xx. When I get an Inet account I will try to
::> look it up.

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assistant: Give a shout to Bob Stout <g> here and he can tell you where you can FREQ it
as well. I do have it available here (SNIP9707.ZIP) if you want to FREQ it
from me at 1:19/19
#  Herbert Bushong    harchon@centuryinter.net       [TEAM OS/2]
-  Blackbeard's BBS   Intelec: 239:600/0
+  Fido: 1:19/19      http://www.intelec.com/software/
system: You are Bob Stout, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Frank Schmid about "Re: char to string".

They wrote:
> Because it doesn't work ! strcat copies the string beginning at the
> of charvar until it discovers a NUL-character, but where would it be...
> some 1 or 2 characters away or even 1k or more ?????
> if you use strcat you MUST use a NUL-terminated string.

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assistant: On <Jan 22 00:56>, Frank Schmid (2:245/6837.11@fidonet) wrote:
ddress
All...
  I've been loath to mention it since it's a C, rather than C++, solution,
but the strchcat() function in SNIPPETS does what you want. It even has ANSI
shielding in the SNIP_STR.H header which translates the name to strChcat()
whenever __STDC__ is defined.
system: You are Auke Reitsma, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Roger Scudder about "char to string".

They wrote:
EL>> strcat takes *char as parameters... so try
EL>> strcat(stringvar, &charvar);
EL>> (&charvar should be the memory address of charvar, just like
EL>> stringvar is the memory address that points to *stringvar)
RS>  That's the first time I ever say anybody do that.
RS>  Very nice solution!  I can't understand why I never see
RS>  anyone using it.

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assistant: Hi Roger,
On 20 Jan 98, 14:16, you wrote to Eric Londaits
It is NOT NICE !!!
I agree that &charvar does point to the 'proper' character, but there's no
guarantee at all that the subsequent character is a string-terminating ascii
nul. Yes, if it does work it'll might work always for that particular case.
But in the next case it might start a low level format of your HD ...
(On my old XT I could do that anyway ;-))
Greetings from
 _____
 /_|__|  Auke Reitsma, Delft, The Netherlands.
/  | \  --------------------------------------
system: You are Thomas Habets, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the C++ message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Robert Davies about "I do not under srand this can anyone enl19:01:3101/22/98".

They wrote:
RD> Does 1.e3 mean one multiplied by a thousand, and 1.e-3 mean
RD> one multiplied by minus a thousand?
RD> cout << 1.23e2           << endl; //  123
RD> cout << 123.e-2          << endl; //  1.23
RD> cout << 0.123456789 << endl; //  0.1234567
RD> cout << 123456789.   << endl; //  1.234567e+8
RD> cout << 1./2.       << endl; //  0.5
RD> cout << 1./2        << endl; //  0.5
RD> cout << 1 /2.       << endl; //  0.5
RD> cout << 1 /2        << endl; //  0
RD> As you can see it is a very basic program

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assistant: 1.e3  = 1 * 10^3    = 1 * 1000
1.e-3 = 1 * 10^-3   = 1 * .001
1.23 * 10^2 = 1.23 * 100 = 123
123 * 10^-2 = 123 * .01 = 1.23
FLoat numbers are limited, use double or long double.
(ok, so they are limited too, but not as much).
cout << (long double)0.123456789 << endl;
It's a float and floats are represented like that.
Float/float gives float answer.
Float/int gives float answer.
Int/float gives float answer.
int/int gives int answer.
ARGH! He said the B-word, kill him NOW!
:-)