On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, John Wildberger wrote:

On December 27, 2003 02:38 pm, Peter L. Peres wrote:

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Would it help if I'd say that I prefer to use form() for this ? ;-)

The << overloading is supposed to make your life easier, not the other way around.

Peter This gets better with every turn. ( for me more and more mysterious). What does form() do? How can I use it ?

#include <iostream.h> cout << form( "%02X", buf[i] ); This should be in libio (i.e. do -lio when linking if the compiler complains). Why not do info iostream and spend some time reading (consider that this is not a tutorial - you are reading manual pages). I hope that you know how hopeless it is to learn C++, or any language, from 5 email messages and a few manual pages.

You also suggested some time back that I should spend time to index my system. What exactly did you have in mind? Surely, I cannot go over every item in my system and catalog what each item means and what it does. Years would not be enough to accomplish this.

;-) I meant for you to activate whatever your system uses for indexing program and let it run (can take two days). It could be glimpse or htdig. I use htdig. Then you have a search form which you access locally with your browser and can do text searches on your own system. Obviously this includes infos, howtos, and most documents you have on your system. I have almost 2GB indexed and I can find everything (eventually). hope this helps, Peter -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml