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C Users Journal. Aug 1997. Walnut Creek CDROM. CUG Library volumes 400-445 path: \zipped\vol_400 ------------------------------------------------ Name Size Date Description ============ ======== ======== =============== 400_01.zip 135340 03-23-94 Socket++ 400_02.zip 290555 03-23-94 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.zip 82658 03-23-94 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.zip 290552 03-23-94 SGPC: Simple Genetic Programming in C 2/2 402_01.zip 341449 03-23-94 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.zip 42210 09-23-93 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.zip 365050 03-23-94 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.zip 287703 11-17-93 Bison++: YACC for C++ 2/3 404_03.zip 290555 03-23-94 Bison++: YACC for C++ 3/3 405_01.zip 244907 03-23-94 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.zip 80082 09-29-93 Flex++: Lexical Analyser for C++ 2/3 405_03.zip 290562 03-23-94 Flex++: Lexical Analyser for C++ 3/3 406_01.zip 156964 01-23-94 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.zip 81426 05-18-94 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.zip 212063 03-23-94 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.zip 290553 03-23-94 SNEWS: threaded Usenet newsreader for PCs 2/2 409_01.zip 223095 10-22-93 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.zip 39337 02-18-94 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.zip 211180 12-14-93 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.zip 282463 12-14-93 Vi Improved (VIM) Editor 2/2 412_01.zip 264688 08-11-95 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.zip 185504 07-27-94 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.zip 291116 07-27-94 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.zip 256404 12-20-93 THE: Highly Portable Text Editor 2/3 414_03.zip 130629 12-20-93 THE: Highly Portable Text Editor 3/3 415_01.zip 291686 07-27-94 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.zip 97132 12-20-93 Run Time Type Information Library for C++ 2/2 416_01.zip 299643 03-16-94 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.zip 96887 03-25-94 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.zip 290554 03-22-94 LIBFTP: easy interface to servers 2/2 418_01.zip 222673 08-24-94 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.zip 289727 03-03-94 RasMol: Molecular Graphics Visualization 2/5 418_03.zip 220137 03-03-94 RasMol: Molecular Graphics Visualization 3/5 418_04.zip 255913 03-28-94 RasMol: Molecular Graphics Visualization 4/5 418_05.zip 290560 03-22-94 RasMol: Molecular Graphics Visualization 5/5 419_01.zip 140463 03-01-94 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.zip 193123 03-01-94 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.zip 44986 04-09-94 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.zip 157153 11-02-94 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.zip 200280 04-04-94 RFVVGA Graphics Animation Demo 2/3 421_03.zip 195700 04-04-94 RFVVGA Graphics Animation Demo 3/3 422_01.zip 271910 03-28-94 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.zip 278478 03-21-94 Micro-C C Compiler 2/4 422_03.zip 269444 02-26-94 Micro-C C Compiler 3/4 422_04.zip 313946 03-21-94 Micro-C C Compiler 4/4 423_01.zip 296806 12-14-94 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.zip 300416 04-04-94 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.zip 261307 04-04-94 Ed Editor: Highly portable windowing editor | 2/2 425_01.zip 234496 02-22-95 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.zip 52203 04-16-94 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.zip 204141 04-18-94 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.zip 301883 03-14-94 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.zip 90303 03-14-94 Pictor Text-Mode Video Library for C/MS-DOS | 2/2 429_01.zip 38822 05-10-95 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.zip 55058 12-30-94 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.zip 109203 01-12-95 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.zip 187396 08-25-94 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.zip 250408 08-25-94 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.zip 362614 09-24-95 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.zip 42478 09-24-95 XYZ++: 3-D C++ Graphics Lib 2/2 435_01.zip 158580 11-30-95 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.zip 195020 11-30-95 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.zip 236048 11-30-95 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.zip 229175 09-11-94 C/C++ Exploration Tools for Windows 2/2 438_01.zip 62240 12-20-94 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.zip 252651 11-13-95 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.zip 331489 09-11-94 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.zip 91346 07-08-94 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.zip 27377 02-15-96 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.tz 496717 02-14-96 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. 443_02.tz 381165 02-14-96 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.zip 556743 12-21-95 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.zip 360800 12-21-95 Mendel's second volume includes an eclectic | mixture of ten different text and graphics | utility and algorithm demonstrations. 446_01.zip 4806786 08-13-96 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.zip 90869 05-08-96 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.zip 48650 05-08-96 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.zip 11684 05-11-96 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.zip 146405 08-12-96 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.zip 47258 08-12-96 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.zip 119550 09-06-96 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.zip 501832 09-06-96 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.zip 667067 09-06-96 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.zip 33944 08-23-96 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.zip 10853 10-23-96 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.zip 284992 10-23-96 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.zip 81718 08-22-96 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.zip 20915 12-28-96 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.zip 1197617 11-12-96 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.zip 45299 10-24-96 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.zip 711780 11-04-96 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.zip 26864 11-24-96 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.zip 274611 12-08-96 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.zip 76208 11-24-96 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.zip 381818 01-05-97 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.