1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I notice that (Mandrake) Linux and Windows do not seem to operate alike in terms of installing third party software. Windows, on one hand, creates icons and adds items to the Start Menu, with the help of the InstallShield--or equivalent, of course, but Linux, on the other hand, seems to care... (3 Replies)

2. Programming

Hi everyone, If you have a few c programs to compile, from a make file, how can you tell which program is compiled first. Descriptively, you may have: objects = main.o xyz.o 123.o abc.o target : $(objects) $(CC) -o $@ $(objects) Does this mean program xyz is called within main,... (1 Reply)

3. Programming

hi I want to write a tsr routine which use to replace the screen saver program, is it possible in unix? how to write a tsr in UNIX? what is address of screen saver program so that i can replace my routine in that address. (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Preface: this is not a homework question. However, my teacher gave us a review packet with some C coding, and for some reason none of the C programs are compiling. First I compiled them from the shell, then I used a compiler to see if something was wrong with compiling from a shell. Both produced... (1 Reply)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Are the programs written on schedulers ,thread library , process management, memory management, et al called systems programs ? How are they different from the programs that implement functions like open() , printf() , scanf() , read() .. they have a prefix sys_open, sys_close, sys_read etc , right... (1 Reply)

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

How can you check the programs that you use most often? (6 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have installed a software called GMT, then writing a script that call the new programs ./example02.sh but I am getting ./example02.sh: line 20: gmtset: command not found I have done ./configure make make install (0 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have installed a program and put the stuff on /usr/local/ However when I run a script it gives an error GMT Fatal Error: /home/chrisd/Dimech/GMT4.5.2/share/PS_font_info.d: No such file or directory (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi does anyone know some good shell scripting programs, like visual studio for C++/C#? (8 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hey guys, Suppose i run passwd via bash shell. It is a suid program, which temporarily runs as root(owner) and modifies the user entries. However, when i write a C file and give 4755 permission and root ownership to the 'a.out' file , it doesn't run as root in bash shell. I verified this by... (2 Replies)