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Unbuffered Streams

The standard stream object cerr and its matching wide-character version, wcerr, are unbuffered. This means that they are automatically flushed after each operation; they do not buffer data. This feature

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The pow() Function

The Standard Library provides the pow() functions (declared in ) which takes two arguments of type double, x and y: double powl(double x, double y);pow() returns the value calculated of

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Rules of Thumb for Software Internationalization

Internationalized software must enable easy porting to other locales. A locale defines language and specific cultural conventions. The process of adjusting internationalized software to a particular locale is called localization

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Shared Memory Error

Question: My Informix usually server starts fine, but when I try to add a database chunk with the onspaces command I get an error (“shared memory not initialized”). Any ideas?

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Error in Timed Job

Question: I am getting an error (“Could not do a physical-order read to fetch next row” #244) while executing a job that runs a set of SQL statements every 30

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Select Statement to Combine Two Tables

Question: How do I use a SQL select statement to combine two tables that are identical in structure but contain different data? Answer: The union statement allows you to combine

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.PAB’s in Outlook

Question: Can I enable an Outlook profile to access two .PAB’s (the same way it can access two PST’s)? Answer: No, I’m afraid not. However, you could import one of

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Win 95/NT Login To Informix

Question: I cannot get 6 of 60 units to log in to an Informix application server. The units are all identical and they can ping the server. I get the

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Oninit Dying Unexplainably

Question: My Informix 7.30 dies occasionally and returns the following message: 16:01:06 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds.16:06:06 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds.16:11:06 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds.16:16:06