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Informix ODBC Drivers 3.31

Question: I am currently running Informix Dynamic Server 2000 version 9.20 TC1 on an NT server, Service Pack 6a. I have existing Visual Basic 5 applications that are using ADO

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Segmentation Fault

Question: What is a segmentation fault? I get it when I try to output an integer. (It’s a very basic program: it reads in an integer and spits it back

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Pointers to Class Member Functions

Question: I’m trying to write a program that has a pointer to a private member function of a class. A public member function calls some of the private functions by

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Duplicate Holidays on Outlook Calendar

Question: Because my work and home computers were accidentally set to different time zones when I imported Calendar info from one system to the other, I ended up with multiple

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Remote Mailbox Access Takes Too Long

Question: I am running Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Server with Microsoft Outlook 2000 as client software. For my remote users, they are using the offline folders. Every time a user dials

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C-Style Function Pointers

Question: While trying to port some C code to a C++ implementation, I ran into this problem. The module this came out of was designed to “automate data handling used

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Unconsting a Const Reference or Object

Question: I have encountered a problem as follows: void foo(const int& var){ foo2(var);}void foo2(int& var)… So what I did was void foo(const int& var){ foo2((int&)var); ^^^^^^} and it compiled *_*