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Array Length

Question: How do I know the size of the array returned by File.list() so I don’t get the message ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when printing the local directory content in the screen? Answer:

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Reading Files with FTP

Question: I want to create an applcation that reads a file from a host on my LAN. The file must be read by FTP. How do I do this? Answer:

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Extracting Integers From Text file

Question: How do I read a series of integers from an ASCII text file? The file contains a sequence of numbers like 110 120 130 140 … I tried to

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Parameters for NT Services

Question: I have written a service that accepts some parameters. How do I set up the service to send those parameters to the service when it starts? Answer: Since services

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WIN NT User ID

Question: Do you know where to locate the Windows NT user ID so that I can add the user to the Exchange Server? Answer: The following code works just fine:

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OLEAUT32 and Y2K

Question: I have heard that the two-year date cutoff for oleaut32.dll is user-definable. By this I mean that you can set oleaut32 to recognize “80” as 2080 instead of 1980.

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JFrame Exit Button

Question: Is it possible to remove the close button from a JFrame or at least disable it? Answer: It is possible to disable the function of the close button on

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Forcing a function to be non-inline

Question: Is there a way to force a function not to be inline?that is, to define the body of a function in a header file, but require that the compiler

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Floating point accuracy

Question: When I do the following, double answer = 121 * .1;System.out.println(“Answer: ” + answer); I get, Answer: 12.100000000000001 What’s going on? Answer: Almost every computer architecture represents numbers in

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Repositioning Viewable Text in TextArea

Question: Can I make the text in a TextArea scroll to a given line? For example, I have 100 lines of text in a TextArea with 20 viewable rows. Can

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UDP Clients

Question: I would like to create an application in Java that communicates with a UDP connection. How do you specify the connection as UDP rather than TCP? Answer: To write

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Unix select Equivalent

Question: Is there any Java facility like the Unix select() system call that will wait until there is something to read from a file descriptor before the programmer does the

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StringTokenizer: Multiple Delimiter Characters

Question: I am writing a text search applet that searches through a text file loaded from the server. I am using StringTokenizer to isolate the individual words. The problem is

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Comparing Strings

Question: I have defined a string variable using the following command: #define latinWord 64 char word[latinWord]; I want to use an If statment to see if the variable “word” is

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Set a Counter Field

Question: Is there an easy way to increase certain fields in tables working as a counter from a third table in a master/detail form? For example: Order Table Item Table

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Cout colors

Question: What can I do to make cout output text appear in different colors? I’ve looked in the iomanip.h file and didn’t see anything, and the textcolor() function in conio.h

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NT remote execute

Question: How do I execute a batch file on an NT machine remotely from another Windows machine? Answer: You have a couple of choices, all from the NT Server Resource

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Modifying File Timestamp

Question: Is there any way to change a file’s last modification time from Java? Answer: It is not possible to alter the time of last modification in Java version before

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Loading automaticaly

Question: When I put my CD into my computer, it should start the programs automatically, but it don’t. I have to go to PROGRAMS to make it come up. Could

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Foxpro 2.6 for DOS

Question: I know I’m a bit behind, but I would like to know how to create C programs for use in Foxpro for DOS. I have Foxpro 2.6 with LCK,

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Preview in VFP

Question: I am going to give a preview of a report for a user, but a small window with a printer icon shows on the top. I don’t want the

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FoxPro vs. Access

Question: I’m planning on using Visual Basic as a front end, but cannot decide on Access or FoxPro as the back end. Any big differences between the two? Answer: I

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Java?

Question: I am looking for some way for ppl to sort info that I have in a table on my page. I have been told many many tiems that I

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SQL and object reference in Fox Pro

Question: How can I can reference the value of an object to use in a select statement? My statment is being used in a Visual Fox Pro application, andso far

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Get Data with GetString

DO recordsets have a handy little method called GetString that they inherited from RDO’s GetClipString. GetString returns the contents of a recordset into a formatted string. Here are three useful

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Writing UDP Clients and Servers

o write UDP clients and servers, you have to use the DatagramSocket class. UDP is a connectionless protocol, so a UDP server doesn’t have to perform an accept() operation the

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Hash Tables

Question: How can I implement a hash table such that each “bucket” is associated with two independent keys?I need to be able to store two data per bucket that are

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Setting Heap Sizes

If your Java program requires a large amount of memory, it’s possible that the virtual machine will begin to throw OutOfMemoryError instances when attempting to instantiate objects. In some cases,

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Make ASP-Generated Code Easier to Read With VbCrLf

Technically, neatness doesn’t count in the world of HTML source code. However, nicely formatted source code makes debugging easier and adds a professional touch to your work. That’s why HTML