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Your questions will typically fall into two categories. Language specific and OS specific. So I'd ask your language specific question in any C forum and OS specific here but when I really want a Unix guy, I use USENET. It's not unusual to find MIT guys and the like there. comp.unix.programmer though comp.lang.c is good, too.
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http://www.unix.org/version3/apis.html is also handy if you're attempting to write portable code, avoiding lock-in is a good thing.
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And if you're willing to spend a few bucks, pick up a copy of "Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++" published by O'Reilly. It's one of the most worthwhile books I've ever purchased.
Generally speaking, if writing portable code is a concern, make friends with a build system. GNU's autoconf is especially popular, as is CMake One of these days, somebody ought to document portability issues in detail (at the function/type/etc level) between common UNIX-like systems libc APIs. I'd probably be willing to help with such an effort. |
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Is usenet accessible with a browser? also from more searching here: http://www.eddie-meyer.com/docs/prog...c/c-index.html the recommended forum seems to be: http://cboard.cprogramming.com/ although it is always good to have more than one source, so how do I try the usenet? Last edited by FHW; 8th October 2008 at 01:02 PM. |
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It's probably the best C-related book I've ever seen, though it isn't really a "beginner" book, you'll learn a lot from it at any experience level just from considering the concepts that are discussed. Once you are somewhat proficient in C, you'll actually understand the implementations. Quote:
Also, mirc is a commercial windows program that connects to IRC, so its use in such a context isn't correct. That said, IRC can still be a good source of information if you find the right channels, which can be challenging. |
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There are no good IRC channels.
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As an interesting aside for historical purposes, Comcast only just shut down their Usenet service for customers this month. I guess nobody was really using it much, and a feed can use a pretty big hunk of bandwidth if you want to carry a lot of groups.
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Every ISP I've used had a usenet server, most still do. For something ISP independent, I've generally found aioe a suitable access point, but my only interests on usenet generally fall under reading comp.lang.* periodically.
One thing you might also check out is the lupg, depending on your level of experience it may be of help.
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ephemera, so usenet is Duke's and that GG is the only current entry point for usenet, hmmmmm.
mdh, I had no luck with the book at the moment at the local store although its title makes it sound tempting, so I have a mental note about it now. Its a shame about the google interface being the main entry point to usenet as I only use google as a last resort, prefering clusty or ask instead, but if the information is good maybe its worth the effort? TerryP, aioe(usenet) looks like an alternative to the GG(usenet), so I'll give that a go too, although which is better GG or aioe? and the lupg looks good too, thanks. |
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I used to use free-agent on Windows98 for usenet.
too much memory temporarily in the dual-boot machine for Windows98 So the newsgroups I read, (news.astraweb.com paid) I read here, one slrnpull.conf for each group, in its own subdirectory which contains the group name, and the default numbers (for example default 500 7 0 ) one .sh or .zsh which contains slrnpull -d /[this folder] -h news.astraweb.com and an authinfo file which contains username and password for news.astaweb.com .............. running the .zsh or .sh fetches the new messages which are put into [here]/news/name/of/group changing to /news/name/of then running mutt -f group makes mutt read the messages .............. sorry for the not-quite-precise instructions. But the idea is there
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