IT & Infrastructure

Hell Look at http://cygwin.com/ There you will find WIN32 ports of a lot of GNU tools including gcc and make. Best regards, Eddy Steevens

Hey GazWaz, I tend to agree with you. I have found that some companies delay in getting the work to you, don't offset the deadlines and expect you to still get things done on time. In addition to this should the customer have ANY query at all you are expected drop what you are doing and address it. My approach is to tell my manager if I'm not going to finish on time, assuming an 8 hour day 5 day week (including leave!). If they then mis-manage it they can just deal. Of course if I screw-up I'll work longer or if a disaster happen I'll also work longer - but I'll make sure they know and appriciate it. I have found that I get at least just as much work done as the people who put in long hours - I like to think of it as working 'smarter' not longer. It sounds a bit egotistical I agree, but some developers are just slower. (FYI: I have recently moved from permanent to contract and it things are just the same) My 2Cents

If you rerun the NT install and choose to repair your installation, that'll replace the system files with the originals. You'll have to reapply your service pack after doing the repair. --Mike-- http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/ The preferred snack of 4 out of 5 Lounge readers.

hi there! I do no codin in unix, but, here are some of the links for finding the source for progrss-bar. http://de.aminet.net/aminet/dirs/dev\_c.html (scroll down.. there u can find an archive for progrss-bar (prog_bar.lha) http://development.freeservers.com/c\_cpp/links.htm have a nice time Cheers Prabhakar

Hi Michael, This is exactly, what Im looking for. And THANKS A LOT for the detailed reply :) . I do have the ethernet cable, plugged into both the network cards of the laptops...I hope it works..lemme go home and try it out and also figure out the way to share the internet connection. Thanks again

>> that has features showing ONLY, HOW it works!! the above may be possible for a printing s/w ... our comp. does this by putting an eval banner as watermark in the printouts ... but its not that easy in case of other software ... may be things like you can only create ... cant take printouts or ... cant save . But there are lots of tools like visual assist where the full power has to be witnessed only if they enable all of the features. so IMHO ... i think that we need to develop better secure mechanisms to keep the crackers at bay. May be technologies like Biometrics can help achieve this in near future .. Cheers Kannan

not exactly sure what you are having problems with here but if it is with the send and receiving part I would suggest you do a search in MSDN. The main functions you will use to do all operations with the COM port are ReadFile(...) and WriteFile(...) . You get a handle to the COM Port with CreateFile(...) . You also need to use the COMSTAT structure and the TIMEOUTS structure. If you need more specific help post a more specific question and I will try to give better advice. Joseph Dempsey jdempsey@cox.rr.com Joseph.Dempsey@thermobio.com "Software Engineering is a race between the programmers, trying to make bigger and better fool-proof software, and the universe trying to make bigger fools. So far the Universe in winning." --anonymous

You might try using a system hook, specifically the one for low level keyboard input. The function call is something like SetWindowsHook or SetWindowsHookEx, not entirely sure on the name. Hopes this helps any!