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Top Forums Programming Learning to program in c Post 8490 by mbb on Friday 12th of October 2001 10:12:48 AM

10-12-2001

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I know just what you mean!

Here are some ideas for you

1. Video shop database/booking system.

** A database can be just a bunch of flat text files.

2. Sorting routines.

** Try to write a sort routine that can handle any size of file.
Use temporary files to store intermediate results.

3. Experiment with simple screen displays.

e.g. write a menu program that use (by file or command line) a list of options and will return the selected option.

4. A mail merge program.

5. Try to emulate some Unix commands e.g. grep, ls, find

6. If you can manipulate graphics try writing a program that generates a tiled map of terrain.

** Try to make the map a realistic a possible. Keep it in as small amount of memory as possible. Allow the user to scroll about the map using cursor keys.

These are just a few ideas of the top of my head. I promise you that at when I was learning how to program I have written these programs for myself.

It is good that you are willing to take on programming. Remember the only way to get good is to pratice.

Regards

MBB

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ypcat

ypcat(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ypcat(1)

NAME

       ypcat - print values of all keys in a NIS database

SYNOPSIS

       ypcat [ -kt ] [ -d domain ] [ -h hostname ] mapname
       ypcat -x

DESCRIPTION

       ypcat prints the values of all keys from the NIS database specified by mapname, which may be a map name or a map nickname.

OPTIONS

       -d domain
	      Specify a domain other than the default domain as returned by domainname(8).

       -h hostname
	      Specify a hostname other than the default one as found by ypbind(8).

       -k     Display map keys. This option is useful with maps in which the values are null or the key is not part of the value.

       -t     This option inhibits map nickname translation.

       -x     Display the map nickname translation table.

FILES

       /var/yp/nicknames
	      map nickname translation table.

SEE ALSO

       domainname(8), nicknames(5), ypbind(8), ypmatch(1), yppoll(8), ypserv(8), ypset(8), ypwhich(1)

AUTHOR

       ypcat is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.

YP Tools 2.14							    April 2010								  ypcat(1)