| Big Numbers |
Jon Bently writes a column called “Software Explorations” for the magazine Unix Review. In the November 1994 issue, Jon discusses how to handle big digit numbers. He starts off by discussing how to store the number, in decimal or binary. He opts for decimal storage and the use of a simple array to store the |
Sinclair QL |
| Displaying QL Screens In MS-DOS |
[It’s not normally the policy of the QHJ to publish programs that are written for other platforms than the QL. But in this case, I can make an exception. The following program by Jeff Kuhlmann is designed to display a QL screen file on an MS-DOS computer. I’ve tried it with my MS-DOS laptop (CGA |
Sinclair QL |
| Displaying TI Graphics Files |
[Jeff Kuhlmann has written an interesting program to display a TI-Artist instance file on the QL. I don’t know how many have been wanting to do this, but here it is. On the disk that Jeff sent me, were many example files. If you are interested in this, I can provide a disk with all |
Sinclair QL |
| Dynamic Windows - Another Approach |
In a back issue of the QHJ I wrote a SuperBasic program that saves a section of the screen to memory and brings it back again. This allows you to save a section of the screen where you are about the put a new window, draw to window, and then bring back what was under |
Sinclair QL |
| Editor's Forum |
Well, it looks like another issues has taken longer that I would like. It’s been one of those “too busy to program” type of dry spells. The only key item of news is that as I am writing this the latest version of C68 v 4.2 has partialy come out. I received the zipped version |
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| Recent Freeware Releases |
A number of freeware programming packages have come my way. I have copies if anyone is interested. Most if these programs should be available on the Internet. If not, I will try to put them out there. BISON – Port by Dave Woodman BISON is another version of YACC (Yet Another Compiler Compiler). BISON is |
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| SOUNDEX |
Soundex is an algorithm for storing words, primarily names, in a number format so that they could be easily look up, and words that sound alike will have almost the same soundex result. This is sort of the thing they use when you call information and ask for a persons number. They will type it |
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