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Should I buy a Agent licence ?
I'd like to know whether I should used vector or map in such situations? I have written a few points for and against their use, but in my mind, And also consider that the size of the map or vector will not increase beyond 32 entries for a 32 bit system, so then again, linear in 32 seems to be not that bad,

Which winsock should I use
If you use Windows for Workgroups (not Windows 3.1), you should use Windows's own 32-bit file access instead of a cache while in Windows. You can still use a cache while in DOS. Note that this is not the same as 32-bit disk access. C:\DOS\SCANDISK C: /CUSTOM I'm cheating a little here because ScanDisk only comes

Promise 2300+, WDCAC850, Quantum Maverick 540 - Which drivers ...
Though Apple says not to initialize the fields of a FSSpec by hand, I interpret that as meaning that if FSSpecs are supported by the OS, then you should use FSMakeFSSpec(). Otherwise, an FSSpec is simply 70 bytes of storage that's up for grabs.) All of the System 7 compatability guidelines (be 32 bit clean,

ANNOUNCE: Turnpike 3.05 released
[snip] (2) Use File Manager to find RMM.D32 in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM. It should be there, and it should have a 12/93 date and be 11473 bytes. If it is not there, you should not proceed with 32-bit file access if you run disk compression (DoubleSpace, Stacker) and your hard disk is not INT13 compatible.

What bit depth (no of colors) should I use?
A totally portable 32 bit CRC generator can be written in plain ANSI C using longs. I first though that SBEIR was an interesting idea but now I feel that I do have some code that could use bit-fields, but I use explicit shifts and masks FOR BETTER PORTABILITY. This is sad; the compiler should be able to do at

Linux/Unix versus NT
Jeff Garzik jgar...@mandrakesoft.com fa linux kernel David Edelsohn wrote: The ABI developed for GNU/Linux on 64-bit PowerPC is based on the AIX PowerOpen ABI combined with the ELF file format. The SVR4 PowerPC ABI only is for 32-bit PowerPC. AIX uses "unsigned long" for size_t, so I do not think that there is any

ctl3d.lib issue?/info
I installed my 32bit on my D drive after reformatting as indicated by Barb. No problems at all. I then "restored" my C drive with the Acer supplied software and again no So I went to System on my 64 bit and renamed it. I then reloaded my 32 bit and named it the same thing. Surprise! I got a dual boot menu.

Of what use 64-bit "General Purpose" registers?
What happens when the 64 bit counter is transfered to a 32 bit local variable for calculation? MSVC's compiler, at least, will warn you about implicit casts that reduce in a loss of information. If you're using an explicit cast, you should know what you're doing - and Hungarian notation won't help that.

MASM question
But the one location only rule still applies) On 32-bit systems, ctl3d32.dll should be installed if it is not present already, or replace the old if installer contains a newer version. We can replace ctl3d.dll by latest ctl3dv2.dll and relink OW 16-bit Windows tools to use ctl3dv2.dll. I think it is good idea.

delay loop
Things are going fine until students and staff start to make enough noise about wanting access to 32 bit PC programs which run only on Windows '95 or Windows NT. If you're going to use Linux I'd check into it. Some say we should be using WinDD and X Windows terminals? I worry about X windows terminals.

Should I use Scenix 50MIPS 8-bit or 16-bit MCU?
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com linux gentoo user "James Ausmus" <james.aus...@gmail.com> writes: OK, to cut short the confusion, Harry, your march setting in your CFLAGS should be k8, and the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS should be either x86, or ~x86, depending on if you want to run stable. Thank you James.

Mersenne Twister -- A Revised C++ Implementation
However, I am not aware of any 32-bit character sets (not to say they can't exist, but they are certainly not supported under Windows). But you should use LPSTR or CHAR in those rare instances when you need to be specific about 8-bit data types. Otherwise, you should use LPTSTR and TCHAR so your code compiles

OT: Itanium & Co (was: MS partnership with Nintendo?)
Jeff Garzik jgar...@mandrakesoft.com fa linux kernel Michael Meissner wrote: long since dead, it is kind of hard to change for 32-bit land (obviously 64 bit land will have an In the PPC arch, size_t is unconditionally the same whether you have a 32-bit or 64-bit procesor... -- Jeff Garzik | "Are you the police?

DLL search order?
Should you use WinME? In three words, yes and no. If you are a newbie to Windows then Windows Millennium Edition is probably going to be good for you. SYS and one of the 32-bit windows executables have been kludged so that any mods to CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT are overwritten when WinME boots.

Why should i use python if i can use java
Only reason would be multimonitor use. But you have only one AGP slot and there you should have the best graphics for 3D game play unless you do not choose the Voodoo 2 route and this card(s) that use PCI slot. Maybe a good compromise can be a TNT AGP card(for 32 bit color 3D game play and general Windows work

32-bit direct(?) memory addressing
Joe Hendricks serv...@thassoc.com comp lang pascal delphi misc alt comp lang borland-delphi Andrew Jackson wrote: What can I gain by going to the trouble of using string tables in 32-bit Delphi 2 or Delphi 3 where memory is no longer a constraint. I can see that it also provides a way of making internationally

PPC should not use -fno-builtin (was Re: 2.3.47 imac build?)
Tim Slattery timir...@ix.netcom.com alt usenet offline-reader forte-agent M.Blechschm...@t-online.de (Michael Blechschmidt) wrote: I use Free Agent. It is a very good software. There are some point, I wish to better. What of these point are in licenced Agent are better? I use Windows95, so I could use the 32 bit

Embedded C variable types (Re: C embedded programming)
If that's true, then I should be able to take the (working) National real/protected/real transitioning code (instead of my Microsoft code written for a Also, I'd like to have the code reside in my 16 bit TEXT segment instead of creating a dedicated 32 bit segment and just use operator prefixes (see (4),

Windows 95 - Why?
... architectures" so you need to use macros in your rpm spec file and especially in your %post and %pre scripts because on 64 bit architectures /lib is /lib64 and on 32 bit architectures it is /lib or /lib32. With macros %{LDCONFIG} and %{LIB} evaluated during install time of package this problem should be solved.

Should I upgrade to VB4? Many questions...
We should integrate this into the NM process. :) No. It's buggy. The advice will fail you on Alpha, UltraSPARC, IA-64, and any other 64-bit Linux platform: A note on For in-memory use, alignment improves performance; put (long) and (void*) in between the 32-bit and 64-bit items. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to