Computer stuff
There are 4 tutorials, but only in german:
- Bash and readline for advanced beginners.
- An introduction to the locale.
- Writing makefiles for beginners.
- Introduction to programming threads in C under Linux.
- Introduction to text encodings (quoted printable, uuencode,
base64...)
For links please see this page in german.
A small collection of rather minimalistic C
libraries, including a FTP library and a NNTP library. Some of them up to
this point only with german documentation and source comments, but most in
english. All libraries run on my Linux system. Whether they also run on other
systems was not tested.
- hover (german)
- a program for an automatical update of a homepage. Indeed it was a small
hack. In the moment all things are in german and I wouldn't recommend it, if
you don't speak german.
- fortext
- reformats ascii texts with paragraphs. In ascii text harvested from the
net (e.g. the usenet), the paragraphs may be marked in different ways:
Sometimes it is a blank line, sometime a Tab at the beginning of the
line. fortext reads a text from stdin (or from a file), tries to
guess, where new paragraphs start, and reformats the text making new line
breaks, filling lines etc.. Finally it writes the reformatted text to stdout
(or to a file).
-
html212ascii
- removes er replaces some tags in html code. This is not a full grown
html->ascii converter, but in fact only a very small preprocessor for the
fortext-text-reformatter above.
- RGXStat
- produces statistics from HTTP server log files. In contrary to the most
other programs its aim is mainly to show and compare the chronological
development of different subareas of a site.
- netload
- shows the load of a network interface as a diagram running from the right
to the left. This is a small gimmick, which I use mainly to see, whether it
is my analogue modem, or the internet itself, which is so slow.
- nntpget
- loads all usenet article of a group, whose subject mathes one or more
regular expressions, and saves them in the working directory. It is a rather
simple program.
- The 8 Queens puzzle
- This is an old programming exercize: Arrange 8 queens on a chessboard, so
that no queen is beaten by another queen. Here one can find an absolute
minimalistic C program, which finds all solutions.
- Pentominos
- This is not an old programming exercize, even if there are enough programs
for it, but a well known puzzle too: 12 tiles each made up from 5 squares are
to be arranged in a rectangle.