Computer information
This page may slowly acquire an organized scrapbook of
information and references on software development
and computers.
Computer use
Computer viruses
Directories of computer and software companies
Virtual communities
Graphics development
- GIF files and animated GIF files
Network programming
-
Internet programming articles from
ora.com
- Internet fundamentals
- Security issues
- "Security in Online Games" by Andrew & Christopher Kirmse
(Game Developer,
July 1997).
A basic introduction to common problems and approaches to solving them.
Windows programming
Debugging utilities
-
DBWIN.ZIP --
I think it's from an article by
Ton Plooy
in Windows Developer's Journal,
December (?) 1996.
-
DBWIN32 by
Grant Schenck
for Windows NT.
"DBWIN32 is a debug message catching utility for the Window's NT operating
system. Similar to the 16 bit DBWIN utility it can capture output
generated by NT programs using the
OutputDebugString()
function (TRACE
under MFC). It provides an MDI interface where each process displays its
output in its own window."
Available on CompuServe's MSWIN32 forum, Library 11, as DBWIN32.ZIP.
-
LODPRF32 by Matt Pietrek.
From Microsoft Systems Journal, July 1995.
Reports DLL loading and DLL preferred addresses
as well as
OutputDebugString()
messages.
Available as of August 1995 from CompuServe's MSL-1 area
as WQA0795.EXE.
Indexed by Microsoft as S15310.
Source code included.
Windows API issues
Errata
Miscellaneous
- Windows hooks
- Win32s issues
Q131896: Win32s limitations
Artificial intelligence
- A* algorithms (path selection)
File formats: documentation, viewing, conversion
- PDF format (Adobe Acrobat)
- Adobe Corporation products, including Acrobat, Distiller,
FrameMaker,
Illustrator, PageMaker, and Photoshop
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PDF Design XTension for Quark XPress.
"Using the XTension, a user can create projects of QuarkXPress documents.
For instance, a large book publisher very likely
creates a QuarkXPress document for each chapter rather than the
entire book in a single document. Using PDF Design XTension,
these individual documents are grouped into a PDF file and
treated as a single document."
-
Ghostview and
GSview
Postscript file viewers from GNU can also save files in PDF format.
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PostScript (by Adobe)
- Microsoft Word
-
Word View 97,
available free from Microsoft, can display and print Microsoft Word documents.
It can also export documents or portions to the clipboard.
Computer languages
C and C++
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C/C++ Sources
by Victor R. Volkman.
This column in the
C/C++ Users Journal
lists C and C++ source code and development tools available
as freeware and shareware on the Internet.
This page lists the references, but is ten months out of date
as of 8 November 1997.
Fortran and Ratfor
-
Cobalt Blue, Inc. (Clyde Lightfoot)
-- Fortran maintenance and source code conversion software,
including FOR_C, a Fortran-to-C converter.
They used to make RTC, a Ratfor-to-C converter.
They were located in San Jose, CA, in the mid-1980s.
Operating Systems
Unix
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OpenNT by Softway Systems
-- A relatively complete version of Unix
operating as a kernel-level subsystem of Microsoft Windows NT.
Macintosh
- MacFixIt --
"Troubleshooting Solutions for the Macintosh".
With news and commentary too.
Computer hardware
Modems
Conference reports
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