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Thanks guys!

I did:
export TERM="xterm"
And I also set the following in my ~/.vimrc:
set term=xterm

This seems to have sold the problem.

Unfortunately it doesn't work when I use...

Hi Everyone,

It's a little difficult to explain what exactly I am looking for.

When I open a file in vi, and then close it, I get back the prompt, but I can still see the file on top. I don't...

Hi,

I am reading through the pthreads tutorial (https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads) and had a question on the example they have given for condition variables. Here is the code snippet:...

How about this:

#include <stdio.h>

int
main()
{
char s[] = "Really "
"long "
"string ";

printf("s = %s\n", s);
}

Here is a quote from...

Hey, Can I assume that for certain function calls, errno can never be set to a certain value.

More specifically, can I assume that for if the stat function call fails, the errno can never be...

sorry, I should have put a better topic.. and I should have posted this in the 'UNIX for beginners' section.. my bad.

I have a program. Everytime that I run that program ,it prints a disclaimer msg and prompts the user to accept the agreement (i.e: type 'y' or 'n').

Now I want to run the program multiple times...

Thanks Porter and frank for your replies !

frank_rizzo, do you mean use something like gprof ?

Hey,

I have a program that takes more time on a solaris machine than on a linux machine. So I guess the best way to know whats going on is to compare the two systems ? CPU and Memory ? Is there...

Proter ! thats just awesome man... Thanks !!

I have a string



Form this string, I want to extract



I am unable to do that with sscanf because of the space between the words. What else can I use?

#include <stdio.h>

char...

hey thanks a lot jim, that works !!

Hi, I have a very small program where I call execlp() to execute sort.

Everything works fine. But sort has a -T option which can be used to specify a temporary directory. Now when I use -T with...

hmm, I am sorry, by metadata I think I meant Indirect blocks

what I mean is, whatever shell cmds I have to get a file size.. they will give me the total disk space occuiped by the file (data +...

I want to find out how many disk blocks are used by only data (and not metadata) by a file.

But as far as I can tell, if the file has holes, then there is no way to know this.

You can find out...

thanks porter, I have the same putty setting.. but still no luck :-|

I am using bash

oops, I am unable to upload the file, but I hope you get the idea..

Hi, I am using putty to connect to a linux machine.

hmm, this is a little difficult to explain...

Whenever I type something which is more than a line, then instead of going to the start of...

Can anybody please tell me how can I determine whether a file is SYMBOLIC LINK, using the stat() function ?

So far I have this:

my @attrs = stat($fileName);
my $mode = $attrs[2];

What next...

Thanks buddy !!

Hey, can I #define something outside the source file ?

I have a C program which uses #ifdef..

#ifdef ABC
... do this..
#else
... that ...
#endif

The usual way that I know of defining...

This is a simple question...

char *str = NULL;
int num = 0;
scanf ("%d", &num);
str = ???



I want str to point to the string num.txt

For e.g: If user enters num = 5,

str should...

I have heard about on-disk data structures, but I am trying to understand how to implement it.

I want to write a program which is going to make use of a B-Tree which is so huge that whole of it...

Brilliant ! that explains everything ! Thanks a lot for your help. :)