Last week’s column looked at how we can read from and write to files by associated the files with user-defined file descriptors. This week, we take this idea a bit further. Closing File Descriptors In ...

alrite, so I'm trying to use the select function to tail a file to see when it has information ready to be input, but it needs to know the file descriptor of the ifstream to be able to work. I've ...

There are a lot more ways to check files using if commands than many of us realize. Although this information is included in the bash man page, that man page has thousands of lines and you could ...

When you change an ADABAS file or NATURAL DDM, you must re-create the access descriptor(s) with the ACCESS procedure, using the same access descriptor name(s). Then you must update each view ...

Hello<BR><BR>What follows is a description of a problem I used to have when running FreeBSD 5.0 and 5.1. I am not running FreeBSD right now, but I am considering going back to it but I need to figure ...