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400_01/ Socket++ 400_02/ Socket++, by Gnanasekaran Swaminathan | (Centreville, VA), is an iostream-like class | for Unix and inet sockets, pipes, and | socketpairs. Socket++ classes can be used more | effectively than directly calling the | underlying low-level system functions. Since | Socket++ has the same interface as the LibG++ | iostream (i.e. like cout and cin), it | automatically performs type-safe input and | output. Even though Socket++ is very easy to | use, it still supports a full complement of | socket options including: error reporting, | debug mode, keepalives, routing, broadcast | datagrams, out-of-band data, and buffer | resizing. Socket++ includes a mechanism for | handling timeouts gracefully as well. Socket++ | runs on many Unix platforms including Sun | Sparc, IBM RS/6000, DECstation, and SGI Indigo | boxes. Socket++ version 1.4, released on | Jun-93 401_01/ SGPC or "Simple Genetic Programming in C", by | Walter Alden Tackett and Aviram Carmi, | supports the "Adaptive Automatic Program | Induction" method defined by Koza and Rice | (Stanford University). The Koza and Rice | method generates LISP programs designed to | solve problems specified by the user. Tackett | and Carmi have produced SGPC by porting the | underlying algorithm for program creation from | LISP to C. Thus, SGPC is a C program that | generates LISP genetic programs as its output. | Since SGPC is now available in C, it offers | greater portability and a 25 to 50 times speed | improvement, according to Tackett and Carmi. | One notable improvement over the original is | the ability to handle multiple populations. | SGPC has been successfully built on many Unix | workstations including Sun Sparcs, | DECstations, HP-UX, and SGI Indigo. SGPC | version 1.0 is now available as volume #401 in | the CUG Library. 401_02/ SGPC: Simple Genetic Programming in C 2/2 402_01/ CForms, by Lars Berntzon (Stockholm, Sweden), is | a tool for building interactive forms-driven | applications. CForms applications can run on | nany type of library supported by the "curses" | library. CForms uses a language-based design | to define forms. An application may contain C | source modules, field pictures, field | definitions, literals, and events. CForms | applications must be compiled with the CFC | compiler and linked with the CFL linker. | CForms runs on most Unix SYSV compatible | platforms including SunOS, Dell-SVR4, and Diab | SYSV.3. It requires a curses library and yacc | or GNU Bison. CForms version 2.1 is now | available as volume #402 in the CUG Library. 403_01/ Patrick KO Shu Pui (Tai Po, Hong Kong) | contributes the Small Matrix Toolbox for C | Programmers. The toolbox is a set of C | functions for matrix creation, arithmetic, | inversion, and solving linear equations. This | product has been released as shareware. | Although you may freely use it for academic | purposes, commercial users must register with | the author for $25. The Small Matrix Toolbox | for C version 0.41 (released 09/23/93) 404_01/ Alain Coëtmeur of the Informatique-CDC (Arcueil, | France) presents two new packages that bring | traditional Unix tools into the 90's: Bison++ | and Flex++. Coetmeur's Bison++ is derived | directly from GNU Bison, the popular | replacement for the Unix utility called YACC | ("Yet Another Compiler Compiler"). Since its | introduction two decades ago, the YACC | software interface remains the most popular | for developing compilers, assemblers, and | other text processing applications. Any | language that can be handled by a LALR(1) | parser is a good candidate for YACC use. 1/3 404_02/ Bison++: YACC for C++ 2/3 404_03/ Bison++: YACC for C++ 3/3 405_01/ Coëtmeur's other contribution to the CUG Library | is the Flex++ package. Like Bison++, Flex++ | retains downward compatability with existing C | programs while offering the benefits of C++ | classes. Coetmeur's Flex++ is derived | directly from GNU Flex ("Fast LEX"), the | popular replacement for the Unix utility | called LEX. Since its introduction two | decades ago, the LEX software interface | remains very popular for developing front-end | lexical analyzers for YACC and standalone text | processing applications. A LEX solution is | ideal for matching both simple and complex | patterns of characters. 1/3 405_02/ Flex++: Lexical Analyser for C++ 2/3 405_03/ Flex++: Lexical Analyser for C++ 3/3 406_01/ Mike Rejsa (Brooklyn Park, MN) submits his | translator for converting ANSI-style C code | and declarations to older Kernighan and | Ritchie (K&R) syntax. Most C programmers have | switched over to ANSI style coding techniques | sometime in the last two or three years. The | ANSI syntax allows for for more comfortably | readable code and brings you closer to what | you really wanted to write. For example, | declaring parameters in the prototype and use | of const, signed, and volatile storage class | modifiers. However, in the course of | maintaining older Unix systems, you may sooner | or later have to handle the inelegant business | of removing ANSI C specific constructs | accurately from a newer source. ATOC version | 1.08 (released 11/15/93) has been designated | CUG 406A. 407_01/ PSUtils, by Angus Duggan (Edinburgh, Scotland), | is an assortment of utilities for manipulating | PostScript documents. Page selection and | rearrangement are supported, including | arrangement into signatures for booklet | printing, and page merging for n-up printing. | The complete collection of PSUtils Release | 1-PL11 (June 1993) is now available as CUG | library volume #407. 408_01/ Daniel Fandrich (Clearbrook, B.C., Canada) offers | his SNews threaded Usenet newsreader add-on | for PCs running a shareware package that | provides dial-up e-mail access to public | networks such as the UUCP network and/or the | Internet. SNews can built using Borland Turbo | C for either MS-DOS or OS/2. The CUG Library | distribution includes MS-DOS executable and | full source on a single diskette. SNews | version 1.91 (released 08/25/93) is | immediately available as CUG volume #408. 1/2 408_02/ SNEWS: threaded Usenet newsreader for PCs 2/2 409_01/ Kendall Bennett of SciTech Software (Melbourne, | Australia) submits his SuperVGA VESA VBE test | kit and Universal VESA VBE. The SuperVGA VBE | VESA test kit thoroughly tests and | demonstrates the VBE BIOS calls. The | Universal VESA VBE is a drop-in replacement | for an existing VBE driver you might or might | not already have. As you may recall, the | Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) | has established criteria allowing | interoperability of SuperVGA hardware and | software. The VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) | provide the ability to address video modes | beyond regular VGA (640x480x16) in a | hardware-independent fashion. Although the | test kit includes full source code, the | shareware VBE replacement driver offers source | code for an additional licensing fee from | SciTech Software. Both are immediately | available on a single diskette as CUG volume | #409. 410_01/ Gary A. Allen, Jr., (Prentice Center, Queensland, | Australia) submits his PART utility for | examining the partition table and hard disk | parameters under MS-DOS. PART works with all | MS-DOS compatible hard disks and provides | additional low-level information on Integrated | Drive Electronics (IDE) disk controllers. | Allen notes that although there are powerful | partition editors available, all of them run | the risk of accidently changing these critical | disk parameters. Since PART is a read-only | display, the partition tables remain secure at | all times. PART includes full source in C and | claims compatability with the Borland C/C++ | compiler. PART version 1.5, as released on | 10/27/93, now appears on CUG #410. 411_01/ Bram Moolenaar (Venlo, Netherlands) contributes | his Vi Improved editor (Vim) that supports | MS-DOS, Amiga, and most forms of Unix. Vim | claims near 100% of the functionality of the | classic "vi" Unix editor. Vim also includes | many embellishments on the original ideas and | thus adds unique functionality of its own. The | CUG Library edition includes full source in C | as well as pre-built executables for MS-DOS. | Vim version 2.0, as released 12/14/93, is now | available as CUG #411. 1/2 411_02/ Vi Improved (VIM) Editor 2/2 412_01/ Peter M. Bouthoorn (Groningen University, | Netherlands) submits his C++ search class | library with artificial intelligence | capabilities. AISEARCH is a tool for | developing problem solving software. | Basically, the library offers the programmer a | set of search algorithms that solve all kind | of different problems. When developing | problem solving software, the programmer | should concentrate on the representation of | the problem to be solved and should not the | implementation of the search algorithm used. | This AISEARCH implementation of a set of | search classes may be incorporated in other | software through C++ derivation and | inheritance. AISEARCH can be built in MS-DOS | with Borland C++ or MS C++ and on Unix using | GNU C++. AISEARCH, as released on 02/10/94, | is immediately available as CUG #412. 413_01/ CUG proudly announces two freeware programming | kits for the Sound Blaster digital audio cards | on a single diskette volume. The original | Sound Blaster card by Creative Labs, Inc. has | become the industry standard for PC digital | audio. Today, a plethora of Sound Blaster | (SB) compatible cards are available from many | vendors. Although SB cards have proliferated | widely, the knowledge required to program and | control their operation has not. The I/O and | DMA access protocol is critical for developers | creating MS-DOS based applications with SB | audio. 414_01/ Mark Hessling (Holland Park, Queensland, | Australia) offers his own full screen text | editor similar to IBM VM/CMS Xedit and | Mansfield Software's KEDIT. The THE text | editor uses both command line commands and key | bindings to operate. It has currently been | ported to SUNOS 4.1.x, Xenix-386, MS-DOS | (Borland C++ and MSC), Esix 4.0.3a, ATT | SystemV 3.2, Linux, 386BSD, and OS/2 2.1 (MSC, | C Set/2, Borland C++). The CUG distribution | of THE includes full source in C and a | prebuilt executable for use with MS-DOS. THE | version 1.5, as released on 01/12/93, is now | available as CUG #414. 1/3 414_02/ THE: Highly Portable Text Editor 2/3 414_03/ THE: Highly Portable Text Editor 3/3 415_01/ Arindam Banerji (Dept. of Computer Sci. & Eng, | University of Notre Dame) contributes his Run | Time Type Information library for C++. Run | Time Type Information (RTTI) is a C++ language | extension proposed by the ANSI C++ committee. | Although the extension is intended to | implemented as part of native C++ compilers, | it may be a long time before this comes to | fruition. Fortunately, Banerji's | implementation of RTTI as a C++ library means | that you can start taking advantage of it | right away. His system is loosely based on | the RTTI system demonstrated by Stousroup in | "The C++ Programming Language". RTTI for C++ | works *ONLY* with Unix based C++ | implementations due to file naming conventions | that are *INCOMPATIBLE* with MS-DOS. RTTI for | C++, as released on 11/03/93, is now available | is CUG #414. 1/2 415_02/ Run Time Type Information Library for C++ 2/2 416_01/ Nigel Salt (Crayford, Kent, U.K.) contributes a | variety of standalone tools and libraries with | source code in C for MS-DOS. This is the | first time source code for many of these tools | has been released. Some of the programs are | written specifically for Borland Turbo C while | others are intended for use with Microsoft C | (MSC). All programs are shareware with | reasonable registration fees ($15 or less) or | donationware (whatever you feel is | appropriate). 417_01/ Oleg Orel (Institute for High Energy Physics, | Protvino, Russia) presents his LIBFTP TCP/IP | library. LIBFTP provides an easy callable | interface for Unix programs to talk with FTP | servers as defined in RFC 959. The FTP (or | File Transfer Protocol) is the protocol of | choice for transferring files over the | Internet. As such, you could use this library | to write your own FTP client with a graphical | user-interface or perhaps as the basis of a | file-mirroring utility. LIBFTP works with | most popular Unix systems but cannot work with | MS-DOS. LIBFTP (as released on 10/28/93) is | immediately available as CUG #417. 1/2 417_02/ LIBFTP: easy interface to servers 2/2 418_01/ Roger Sayle (Dept. Computer Science, University | of Edinburgh, U.K.) contributes his molecular | graphics visualization system for Unix | XWindows and MS Windows. Specifically, RasMol | is intended for the visualisation of proteins | and nucleic acids. It reads Brookhaven | Protein Databank (PDB) files and interactively | renders them in a variety of formats on either | an 8-bit (see Fig. 2) or 24- to 32-bit colour | display. Documentation includes include | on-line help, hypertext documentation and the | previous (dated) version of the PostScript | user reference manual. RasMol version 2.3 (as | released on 03/04/94) is immediately available | on a 4 disk set as CUG #418. 1/5 418_02/ RasMol: Molecular Graphics Visualization 2/5 418_03/ RasMol: Molecular Graphics Visualization 3/5 418_04/ RasMol: Molecular Graphics Visualization 4/5 418_05/ RasMol: Molecular Graphics Visualization 5/5 419_01/ Dale Anderson (San Diego, CA) submits his a first | release of the collections specified by Object | Database Management Group - 93 (ODMG-93). This | work is based on the publication "The Object | Database Standard: ODMG-93" (ISBN | 1-55860-302-6). Although Anderson has no | personal affiliation with the ODMG, this work | nevertheless represents an important | contribution to the dissemination of this | conceptual model. His release contains | collection classes (see chapter 5), man pages | for each method, and a test suite for almost | all methods. The code itself has been tested | on an HP/UX 9.0 C++ compiler and GNU C++ also | on this platform. Anderson's ODMG-93 | implementation for Unix (as released on | 03/02/94) is immediately available as CUG | volume #419. 420_01/ James L. Dean (New Orleans, LA) contributes his | VGAMAZE tools written for MS-DOS VGA graphics | with the Borland C++ 3.0 compiler. VGAMAZE | displays mazes with square (SQRMAZE.CPP) or | hexagonal rooms (HEXMAZE.CPP) in three | dimensions on your monitor. It includes a | template for one dimensional virtual arrays. | The plotting class can plot any surface | z=f(x,y). An example program for surfaces | (SPIKE.CPP) demonstrates that its good for | more than just mazes. The CUG Library | distribution includes all C++ source code and | executables for SQRMAZE, HEXMAZE, and SPIKE. | VGAMAZE version 4 (as released on 02/27/94) is | immediately available as CUG Library volume | #420A. 420_02/ Tatsurou Sekiguchi (Department of Information | Science, University of Tokyo, Japan) submits | his Coerce program which can convert many | graphic file formats popular on BBSes in | Japan. Specifically, it converts from one of | MAG, PI, PIC, MAKI, PPM, PBM, ML1, and beta | formats to one of MAG, PI, PIC, PPM, and beta | formats. Coerce can be compiled on any Sun | workstation running SunOs 4.1.3 with GNU C++ | 2.4.5 or later. Others have reported good | success compiling Coerce on MIPS and RS/6000 | machines. Sekiguchi also includes source for | a simple X Windows bitmap viewer. Coerce (as | released on 02/24/94) is immediately as CUG | Library volume #420B. 421_01/ Thomas Hagen (Trondheim, Norway) contributes his | RFVDEMO collection of high-speed VGA animation | demonstrations for MS-DOS. The animations | require the Borland C++ 3.1 compiler. There | are four main animation demonstrations | included: bitmap-rotation routine, fractal | zoomer, plasma, and voxelspace routine. These | are in addition to lower-level support | routines for keyboard handling, timer class, | and others. RFVDEMO version 0.1 (as released | on 01/17/94) is immediately available in a | three disk set as CUG volume #421. 1/3 421_02/ RFVVGA Graphics Animation Demo 2/3 421_03/ RFVVGA Graphics Animation Demo 3/3 422_01/ Dave Dunfield (Nepean, Ontario, Canada) submits | an entire suite of tools from the MICRO-C C | compiler development system. This includes | the MICRO-C C compiler itself for MS-DOS, more | than 70 useful sample programs with full C | source, and a demonstration version of MICRO-C | for embedded systems. MICRO-C is a tiny | compiler which can run with less than 32k RAM | and yet is highly independent of CPU and OS. | Specifically, platform support is available | separately for 68HC08, 6809, 68HC11, 68HC16, | 8051/52, 8080/8085, 80x86 and 8096 CPUs. The | CUG Library distribution includes a fully | functional MICRO-C compiler executable built | for the MS-DOS 80x86 environment. This | version generates code in .ASM format so | Microsoft MASM, Borland TASM, or equivalent | are required (not included). MICRO-C version | 3.02 (as released on 03/22/94) is immediately | available as CUG #422 in a set of four | diskettes. 1/4 422_02/ Micro-C C Compiler 2/4 422_03/ Micro-C C Compiler 3/4 422_04/ Micro-C C Compiler 4/4 423_01/ The CUG Library has always accommodated C/C++ | archives both big and small. This month, I've | compiled an anthology of five outstanding but | small source archives. William Pierpoint | (Camarillo, CA) submits his comprehensive | library for stream-style record I/O. Karl | Hahn (Sarasota, FL) contributes a MIME binary | encode/decode routines for use with email | tools. Philip Erdelsky (San Diego, CA) | releases both source for general ledger | posting with 32-bit math library and a | Re-entrant DOS-Compatible File System for | embedded systems. Last, Keith Vertanen (Pine | Springs, MN) sends his brief but succinct | implementation of the BSPLINE rendering | algorithm. Again, all five archives are | immediately available on a single diskette as | CUG volume #423. 424_01/ Charles Sandmann (Houston, TX) submits the ED | editor with a user interface based on the DEC | VMS EDT editor. ED is a true multiplatform | editor and can be compiled and run on | virtually any platform. It includes | target-specific code for keyboard, screen, and | TCP/IP handling. This allows it to run on Unix | (IBM RS/6000, Sun Sparc, HP, NeXT or Alpha AXP | machines), MS-DOS, Windows NT, and OS/2 | environments with ease. ED can edit any kind | of file in text, binary, or hexadecimal modes. | 1/2 424_02/ Ed Editor: Highly portable windowing editor 2/2 425_01/ Timor V. Shaporev (Moscow, Russia) contributes an | extremely versatile version of the classic | Unix TAR archiver and an innovative method of | delivering LZW compressed data over pipes. | Portable TAR works with both MS-DOS and Unix | compatible machines. Since more than half the | source code available from the Internet | appears in TAR format, you'll quickly find | this a valuable utility. Portable TAR reads | and writes archives in ordinary files, raw | floppies, and QIC-02 streamer tapes. It | understands regular TAR formats, PKZIP, gzip, | and Unix "compress". 426_01/ Patrick Ko Shu Pui (Hong Kong) submits his | LPC-Parcor-Cepstrum code generator for C. The | LPC-Parcor-Cepstrum code generator (hereafter, | LPC) can be built on most Unix platforms as | well as Microsoft C/C++ 7.0 and Borland Turbo | C v2.0. The primary use of this archive is | the manipulation and normalization of audio | data files. Specifically, it supports 8-bit | ulaw (SUN Sparc), 8-bit and 16-bit PCM data. | It then generates LPC autocorrelation or | covariance coefficients, Parcor (partial | correlation) coeefficients, or LPC cepstrum | coefficients. 427_01/ Christof Ruch (Clausthal, Germany) submits the | Multi Joystick Interface package. This | package makes it possible to connect up to six | digital joysticks (Atari type) to the parallel | port of your PC. For test (or two player | gaming) purposes, two joysticks can be | emulated by the keyboard, so you can try out | the games before you actually decide to build | an interface. Specifically, this archive | includes instructions for building the | interface, test programs for checking your | interface, and Pascal and C interface | routines. Several arcade type games have are | already publicly available for this system, | though none are included with the CUG archive. 428_01/ Jonathan Wood (Irvine, CA) contributes the PICTOR | text-mode video library. PICTOR is a C | callable library for MS-DOS development that | provides multi-pane stacked windows, pulldown | menus, and hypertext help. PICTOR is more than | just video: it also includes interrupt-driven | serial communications, CTRL-C and critical | error handler, on-screen clock, text | compression, and even a sample text editor. | 1/2 428_02/ Pictor Text-Mode Video Library for C/MS-DOS 2/2 429_01/ This volume combines three relatively small but | powerful archives on a single diskette. Walter | Karas (Cary, NC) submits C++ source code for a | simple MS-DOS chess game. Astute CUJ readers | will remember that Walter Karas also | contributed the SORTLIST AVL algorithms last | year on CUG #395. Russell Taylor (University | of North Carlina at Chapel Hill) contributes | archives for redirecting serial I/O and | accelerating the PC hardware clock. 430_01/ Christopher G. Phillips (University of Texas at | Austin) submits his "m68kdis" disassembler for | the Motorola 68000 family of CPU chips. | Disassemblers are system software that accepts | a binary executable as input and produces | assembly language source as output. | Specifically, m68kdis supports the full | instruction sets of the 68000, 68008, 68010, | 68020, and 68030 CPU chips. Additionally, | m68kdis decodes instructions for the 68851 | Paged Memory Unit and the 68881/68882 | Floating-Point Coprocessors. The Motorola | 68000 family chips power millions of computers | including the Macintosh, Atari, Amiga, and | many embedded CPU industrial applications. The | CUG Library edition of m68kdis includes full | source in C (no executables are provided). The | m68kdis disassembler is immediately available | as CUG volume #441. 431_01/ Kyle A. York (McGraw Hill School Systems) submits | his Remote Installable File System for DOS. | The Remote Installable File System provides a | LAN linking two computers through the serial | port so they may share resources. RIFS | installs itself as a TSR using the MSCDEX | convention for installable file systems. | Shareable resources are currently limited to | available disk drives including hard disks, | CD-ROM, and network drives. RIFS also | supports the redirection of a client parallel | port to a file or device on the server. RIFS | supplies 32-bit Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) | to guarantee error-free file transfers. The | CUG Library distribution includes full source | in C and ASM as well as MS-DOS executables. | RIFS for DOS (released 10/08/94) is | immediately available as CUG volume #431. 432_01/ Andrew Scott (Mosman Park, Australia) submits his | PTMID music conversion utility. Specifically, | PTMID takes General MIDI files (format 0 or 1) | and converts them to Protracker MOD files or | Multitracker MTM files. As you may know, MIDI | files are industry standard, but need some | sort of sequencer to be played. This is | because there can be near-infinite | simultaneous notes present (though about 20 is | a standard maximum). Protracker files are 4 | channel (though 6, 8, or more can be | supported) files, but have a bank of digitized | instruments included. This allows reasonable | quality sound to be produced given limited | hardware. Multitracker files are similar to | MOD files and support up to 32 simultaneous | notes. PTMID version 0.3 (released on | 07/18/94) is immediately available on CUG | Library volume #432A. 433_01/ Stephen L. Balkum and Daniel A. Sill (Zephyr | Software, Austin, TX) submit their MS-DOS | real-mode SVGA graphics library for MSC, | Borland C, and Symantec C/C++. SVGACC | provides an easy interface to the high | resolution/high color video modes of the newer | SVGA video cards. There has been no standard | for VGA video cards above the 320x200x256 | resolution. Instead, each video card | manufacturer has implemented a slightly | different method to access these high | resolution/high color video modes. SVGACC | automatically identifies the video card and | its installed memory. Users may write | graphics programs that will work on most any | SVGA card without writing specific versions | for each individual SVGA card. Over 100 | functions support sprite animation, drawing | primitives, fills, 3-D views and much more. | SVGACC is written in 100% assembly language | and uses 80386 32-bit registers for the best | possible speed. SVGACC version 2.1 (as | released on 05/09/94) is immediately available | as CUG volume #433. 434_01/ Nicholas Centanni (Los Gatos, CA) submits his 3-D | graphics class library for Borland C++ 3.1 | (and later). XYZ++ is a comprehensive package | of optimized C++ classes for both floating | point and fixed point 3D graphics. 1/2 434_02/ XYZ++: 3-D C++ Graphics Lib 2/2 435_01/ Jason Hughes (Abilene, TX) submits his VESA SVGA | graphics demonstration that includes many | other programming elements essential to | writing MS-DOS games. The graphics | demonstrations take you through many | fast-moving animations that show off the VESA | 640x480x256 color display mode. I was | particularly impressed with its speed even on | my slow 80386DX-20Mhz CPU. Additional | graphics routines show off the virtual paging | capabilities of SVGAs with more than 1MB RAM | onboard. The CUG Library distribution of | VesaTest includes full source code in Borland | C++ v3.1 along with MS-DOS executables. | VesaTest version 2 (as released on 07/20/94) | is immediately available as CUG #438. 436_01/ Richard Zigler (McBain, MI) submits his INput | CONtrol (INCON) library for developing | sophisticated data input screens in MS-DOS | applications. INCON gives you control over the | placement and appearance of input fields, and | the type and amount of data that each will | accept. Input fields may be alphanumeric, | uppercase, integer, or floating-point. The | INCON library support Borland Turbo C 2.01 (or | later) and will build Compact, Small, Medium, | or Large memory model versions. INCON version | 3.1 (as released on 10/08/94) is immediately | available as CUG #436 437_01/ C/C++ Exploration Tools for Windows, by Juergen | Mueller (Kornwestheim, Germany), includes both | his C Function Tree Generator (CFT) and the C | Structure Tree Generator (CST). CFT and CST | analyse the C/C++ source code of applications | of any size with multiple files. CFT and CST | are useful to explore new, unknown software | and to support re-use, maintenance and | re-engineering. By preprocessing, scanning, | and analysing the program source code, these | programs generate the function call hierarchy | (CFT) and the data structure/class (CST) | relations. Both programs can handle C and C++ | code, CFT can additionally analyse assembler | code. The C Exploration Tools for Windows | executables (released 09/11/94) are | immediately available as CUG volume #437. 1/2 437_02/ C/C++ Exploration Tools for Windows 2/2 438_01/ Riku Saikkonen (Finland) submits his telnet | client for MS-DOS which uses the serial port | as the I/O device. Although designed for | Bulletin Board System (BBS) applications, | STELNET works equally well without any BBS | software. STELNET requires a FOSSIL driver | and the Waterloo TCP library. It supports | binary mode telnet (8-bit), and a '8-bit clean | mode', in which all 256 characters are cleanly | transferred in both directions. STELNET does | not do any terminal emulation of its own; it | should never change the data transferred | (except where protocol requirements | designate). 439_01/ David Pyles (Jackson, MS) offers his DOS Extender | Library for producing Protected Mode MS-DOS | applications. XLIB is an assembly language | library which greatly simplifies | protected-mode programming under Microsoft | DOS. With only two calls to XLIB, assembly | language programs can utilize the simplicity | and power of 32-bit processing. C and C++ | programs can harness the powers of 16-bit | protected mode using inline assembly. | Additionally, the XLIB archive contains a | second library call EASYX which allows all | high-level languages to gain access to | extended memory. 440_01/ George Vanous (Delta, BC) submits his library of | essential and efficient C-callable functions. | Although oriented towards MS-DOS, many of the | algorithms are relevant on other platforms | such as Windows and Unix. BESTLibrary consists | of 282 functions coded in assembler and 68 | functions written in C. All calls require far | pointers (e.g. Large memory model). 441_01/ George Vanous' also submits his VGA Editor for | editing and animating graphics images with | full mouse support. The VGA Editor creates | graphics files that are fully portable into C | and Pascal programs in conjunction with | BESTLibrary (CUG #440). The editor is ideal | for drawing small pictures and animations for | use with 16-color VGA modes. VGA Editor will | also read in Windows .ICO files for editing | (but does not yet support writing them). The | editor can accomodate multiple-frame | animations in a single editing session. Fig. | 1 shows the zoom style of editing on a single | frame. 442_01/ Ted Jensen (Redwood City, CA) has contributed his | manuscript "A Tutorial on Pointers and Arrays | in C" to help novice C programmers learn | proper usage of these critical language | elements. Looking back to my own | apprenticeship in C more than 10 years ago, I | still have vivid memories of my trials with | pointers. Jensen's work is based on a | tutorial originally found in Bob Stout's | popular "SNIPPETS" C code collection. 443_01/ Martin Steppler (Aachen University of Technology, | Germany) submits the Communication Networks | Class Library (CNCL), a C++ library created by | the Communication Networks department of | Aachen. CNCL is both a class library featuring | generic C++ classes as well as a simulation | library with strong points in random number | generation, statistics, and event-driven | simulation. 444_01/ Mendel Cooper (Grantsville, MD) contributes a | volume of MS-DOS games: Wordy, ChessClock, and | Chaos Game. Wordy is an educational word-game | study system that builds pattern and word | recognition skills used in Scrabble (tm) and | Boggle (tm). The Wordy practice game checks | words you unscramble against a 100,000 word | dictionary. Wordy also includes standalone | Search, Anagram, UnScramble, and word-pattern | find utilities. A BINGO utility looks up all | valid permutations of letters of a word. The | 1DIF utility finds all legal words constructed | by substituting a single letter. 445_01/ Mendel's second volume includes an eclectic | mixture of ten different text and graphics | utility and algorithm demonstrations. 446_01/ The Are Magnus Bruasat of the SINTEF group at the | University of Oslo (Norway) submits Diffpack: | a fully object-oriented framework in C++ for | solution of Partial Differential Equations | (PDEs). PDEs often arise in the mathematical | modeling of physical processes involving for | example fluid mechanics or waves. Some | typical uses of Diffpack include standard | model PDEs, 3D linear wave equation, | incompressible Navier-Stokes, and stochastic | ODEs. Diffpack can interface with gnuPlot and | plotmtv. You can even construct MPEG movies | from multiple visualization frames. 447_01/ Michael F. Watson and Dean Lance Smith contribute | RELAY: an interactive overload protection | design tool for electrical engineers. Relay | plots the time-current characteristics of | overcurrent protection devices and coordinates | the overcurrent protection devices at an | electric distribution substation. The source | code is entirely in C and includes makefiles | for the Microsoft C compiler.. The RELAY.EXE | executable requires MS-DOS and VGA display. 448_01/ Surojit Chatterjee and Dean Lance Smith submit a | tool for detecting digital circuit problems | via signature analysis. Signature analysis is | a technique used in servicing | microprocessor-based systems. With this | technique, an instrument called a signature | analyzer is used to check a digital circuit by | detecting the bit streams at various nodes of | the circuit. The bit streams are displayed as | hexadecimal signatures. The actual signature | of a node is compared with its predetermined | correct signature. The result of the | comparison is used to trace faults in the | system down to the component level. This | distribution includes complete source in C and | MS-DOS executables. The source supports | Borland Turbo C but could possibly be ported | to other environments. Signature analysis v1.0 | is now available on CUG CD-ROM as volume #448 449_01/ Nullsock, by Jean-Michel Mercier (Paris, France), | is a Winsock simulator which allows you to run | Winsock applications offline. This is most | useful for forcing a web browser to work on | offline copies of HTML files that you have | downloaded. You might want to do this because | you're "on the road" with a portable computer | but without a immediate Internet connection or | perhaps to avoid paying online charges to view | material you've already downloaded several | times. Nullsock works by loading a dummy | WINSOCK.DLL with its entry points replaced by | stubs. You can either run Nullsock directly | or use Nullsock to spawn the desired | application. Nullsock was designed to work | with Windows 3.11 and has been tested with | Netscape and AIR Mosaic. It will work with | Windows 95, but only when running 16-bit | Winsock applications. Nullsock includes | complete C source and compiles with Borland C. | Nullsock version 1.0 is available on CUG | CD-ROM as volume #449. 450_01/ Klamer Schutte of the TNO Physics and Electronics | Laboratory (The Hague, Netherlands) | contributes the CpppIma image processing class | library. CppIma library provides an interface | to common operations on images for C++ | applications. The operations include file I/O, | image creation, iterators for traversing | images, and histogram creation. The library's | is enabling easy construction of image | processing programs. Secondarily, Schutte | hopes to achieve reasonable performance and | create an image library independent API. 451_01/ Schutte has also contributed ClipPoly, an | extended C++ polygon clipping library with set | operators. Classical clipping algorithms will | tell you whether a point "x" is withing a | given polygon "A". ClipPoly handles the more | general case of two polygons "A" and "B" where | you want to know the areas of intersection of | "A" and "B", "A" minus B", and "B" minus "A". | Although the Weiler-Atherton algorithm already | solves this case, Schutte presents a simpler | but just as effective algorithm. The ClipPoly | algorithm requires only that all polygons are | non-self-intersecting (i.e. there are no | "holes"). 452_01/ Sean Gordon (Fife, Scotland) submits Freedock, a | Windows "dock" program that includes the full | source code in C. A dock is kind of a | miniature version of Program Manager that | holds icons for the small number of | applications that you use most often. Freedock | also remembers your preferred window geometry | for each application that you register with | it. This saves you from the burden of | re-arranging your windows each time you | startup an application. A "previewer" allows | you to check or change the window geometry | without actually launching the applications. | The entire dock can be scaled in a way similar | to the MS Office Manager dock. 453_01/ Jean-Claude Wippler (Houten, Netherlands) | contributes his MetaKit, a compact class | library for data storage and easy manipulation | of structured objects and collections in C++. | MetaKit works with any C++ compiler that | supports Microsoft Foundation Classes | including VC++, Borland C++, and Symantec C++. | MetaKit allows your data to be loaded on | demand, which allows you access to any size | files. It uses traditional database metaphors | of begin work/commit work/ rollback work with | automatic file storage allocation and | reclamation. MetaKit allows data to be | "flattened" for efficient streaming over | sockets and pipes. It encapsulates data in | terms of view, row, and property classes. Data | can be conveniently accessed via "[]" and "()" | by operator overloading. Applications can | statically link MetaKit or load it as a DLL. 454_01/ Beat Rigazzi (Oberonz, Switzerland) submits the | Sound Wizards Module Player (SWMP), a driver | for playing .MOD sound files through any | digital audio card (SoundBlaster compatible). | The .MOD audio file format The .MOD file is a | multichannel sampled audio file which supports | 4, 6, or 8 simultaneous channels. The .MOD | file has fewer limitations than the .WAV file | and for that reason has become widely used by | electronic music and game producers. SWMP | includes several example .MOD tracks for you | to experiment with and a standalone MS-DOS | player program (SWMP.EXE). SWMP provides an | API and calling interfaces for Borland C/C++, | Assembler, and Pascal. You can integrate the | library simply by including the header file | and linking in MOD_DRV.OBJ (source not | provided). 455_01/ Oleg Kiselyov (Denton, TX) offers his Advanced | I/O C++ Class Library which enhances the | capabilities of stream I/O with encoding and | compression. Some of these features include: | * Filenames with pipes embedded * Explicit | Endian I/O of short/long integers (guarantees | portability) * Stream sharing of different I/O | types * Simple variable-length coding of short | integers * Arithmetic compression of a stream | of integers 456_01/ Kerwin F. Medina (New Westminster, BC) | contributes LZHLIB, a small C library with the | minimum code neccessary to compress and | uncompress using the LZH algorithm. This | library is a direct derivative of the source | cod of Haruhiko Okumura's popular "ar" | archiver. Medina has created the library so | an application can make use of compression | with a function call and without having to | spawn an external compression program. The | library has only two API functions: | "lzh_freeze" (to compress) and "lzh_melt" (to | decompress). In both cases, the caller only | has to provide the I/O functions and memory | allocation functions. The interface is simple | enough that you can integrate it with fewer | than 20 additional lines of code in your | program. LZHLIB can be built on MS-DOS, | Unix, and other platforms. LZHLIB as released | on 04/18/96 is now available on the CUG | CD-ROM. 457_01/ Gray Watson (Pittsburgh, PA) submits dmalloc, the | debug memory allocation library. The dmalloc | library has been designed as a drop-in | replacement for C runtime malloc(), realloc(), | calloc(), free() and other memory management | routines. It provides many debugging | facilities that you can configure at runtime, | including: memory-leak tracking, fence-post | write detection, file/line number reporting, | and general logging of statistics. 458_01/ Kiselyov Oleg (Denton, TX) contributes Grayimage, | a C++ class library for dealing with | full-depth grayscale images. Grayimage | upports all standard image algebra/arithmetics | including dealing with image slices, histogram | equalization, and computing various norms and | scalar products. The package reads and writes | PGM, XWD and Group G (grayscale) TIFF file | formats with automatic recognition of the | input image file format. It's possible to | assign one image to another to fit, no matter | what their dimensions are. 459_01/ Alex Hunger (Adlington, Lancashire UK) submits | MMND, a game that puts the computer in the | role of "codebreaker" in the classic | MasterMind (TM) boardgame. The interesting | aspect of Hunger's implementation is that the | computer can guess a pattern that you choose. | It uses an optimal information-theoretic | algorithm and so plays extraordinarily well -- | better than any human being. This takes a lot | of computation, so patterns chosen are stored | in a data file so a computation never needs to | be made twice. The patterns chosen are put | through a randomizing algorithm that makes the | game more interesting to play, without losing | optimality. 460_01/ M.A. Sridhar of faculty of the University of | South Carolina (Columbia, SC) contributes "Yet | Another Class Library (YACL), an innovative | cross-platform application framework. YACL is | a C++ class library that offers high-level | abstractions for common programming problems. | Its design goal is to be both | application-centric and take advantage of C++ | facilities (e.g. operator overloading and | templates) wherever possible. YACL implements | both scalar (String, Integer, Date, etc.) and | container (sequence, set, tree, etc.) core | classes. The GUI classes are based on a | variation of the model view controller (MVC) | paradigm. YACL supports all expected GUI | objects (menus, dialogs, buttons, listboxes, | button groups, etc) and resources (cursors, | fonts, pens, colors and brushes). 461_01/ Dean Lance Smith and Mohammad Musa present their | paper "Two Software Data Organizations that | Support Railroad Signalling" and accompanying | C source. This program models a control | system capable of understanding an entire | railroad line composed of any combination of | Automatic Blocking System (ABS) and | Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) blocks. In | railroad parlance, a "signal block" or | "block", is a length of rail track that is | controlled by a block signal. A block may | contain two or more tracks in various track | configurations. Most blocks have at least one | main track. Two or more main tracks may also | be in parallel in a block. A block may also | contain lines that cross the main track(s), | turnouts, branch lines, or sidings. Two or | more blocks constitute a rail line. 462_01/ Ed Ream (Madison, WI) submits the Sherlock 2.0 | set of debugging tools for Macintosh as CUG | volume 462. Longtime CUJ readers may recall | earlier incarnations as Sherlock 1.7 for | MS-DOS (CUG 355) and Macintosh (CUG 356). | Sherlock is a debugging tool different from | currently popular interactive debugging tools | such as CodeView. Sherlock uses C macro | expansion capabilities to implant debugging | calls and functions without manual coding. | Those calls are enabled/disabled from the | command line and removing those calls from the | source is also done automatically. Sherlock | uses far less memory than a full-size | debugger. In addition, Sherlock provides | detailed statistics about your program. 463_01/ Leonard Janke (University of British Columbia, | Vancouver) contributes LInteger, a C++ library | that empowers you to create and perform | arithmetic on objects representing nearly | arbitrary precision integers. Thanks to C++ | support for operator overloading, the use of | the large integers in this library should be | nearly as easy as the use of regular int | types. In many cases, converting your | application to use LInteger can be as simple | as substituting "LInteger" for "int" in your | editor. 464_01/ B.T. Szocik (Ottawa, Ontario) submits the | Miracle C compiler, a complete language and | runtime implementation for MS-DOS. Szocik | intends Miracle C to be used primarily as a | teaching support tool. Miracle C supports | only the Small memory model (code < 64K, data | < 64K). Pointers are always 16-bit; no "far" | extensions are allowed. All K&R C syntax and | data types are fully supported (plus some ANSI | extensions), there's nothing small about the | language implementation. 465_01/ Victor R. Volkman (Ann Arbor, MI) contributes his | "Fader" custom control for Windows, a slider | control for use with Windows 3.1 and | compatible environments. The Fader is a | custom control designed to return a continuous | range of values based on the position of a | thumb that slides along a rail. This idea is | similar to the Windows scrollbar in many | respects. Since the scrollbar is almost | inseparably associated with scrolling the | client area, it quickly becomes unfamiliar in | other contexts. The fader provides an analog | range in the same way the potentiometers are | used in a stereo equalizer or mixer. For | example, a fader could be used to apply | equalization to a waveform or to regulate the | hue of a color. 466_01/ Eric Artzt of Microsoft Corporation (Bellevue, | WA) releases Autoduck, a Windows 95/Windows NT | console utility that extracts specially tagged | comment blocks from C/C++, Visual Basic, and | Assembly source files. Autoduck formats the | information in the comment blocks and produces | documentation files in Rich Text Format (RTF) | for use with Microsoft Word or the Windows | Help Compiler. Autoduck can also produce HTML | files for Internet or intranet use.