February 2, 1998

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CL.EXE Error

Question: I installed MS Visual C++ 5.0 at work and on my home machine. At work it’s fine running on Windows NT with 96 megs of RAM. On my home

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Linked List vs. File I/O

Question: Can you explain to me how a linked list works with FILE I/O. For example, how do you add, modify, delete, and search for a student record in a

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Mouse Support Under DOS

Question: In what direction should I look to find a way tobuild a simple dos aplication with mouse control. Answer: Building a DOS application that provides mouse support involves writing

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Out of Memory errors in Delphi 2.0

Question: I am working on my first Delphi 2.0 application which has grown to be quite large over the past few months. The problem is that lately I have been

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List of keys in a .ini section

Question: Is there a Windows function or some quick wayget a list of the keys in an .ini file, such as: [Section]Key1=xxxKey2=yyyKey3=mmmKey4=ppp I want this: ‘Key1’, ‘Key2’, ‘Key3’, ‘Key4’ Answer:

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Virtual Functions and Polymorphism

Question: Say you have three classes, a base (called Base),and two classes derived from it (called Derv1 andDerv2). Base has a pure virtual function (called TypeGet()) that is defined in

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Aborting a Loop

Question: Is there any way to abort a loop with just pressing a kee. Like you could do in Pascal: dountil keypress Answer: If you are writing a loop that

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How to Learn C++

Question: What is the best way to learn c++?I can study on line, by book or attend a course.Which are the bests places to start. Answer: The answer really depends

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PowerBuilder dynamic menus

Question: We want to create menus dynamically where we store the menu items in a table. While running the application, we want to read the values from the table and