What is on Your Mind?

I agree it's good to write your own stuff. I've done a few install scripts with my old work. I only created them to make my work easy and well now they are used all teh time to install new software on their clients UNIX machines I got little credit though

Still though I'm not in it for teh credit and stuff. It was a good learning experience for me. I learnt a fair bit from it.

Now I want to create a little project that will scan a IP (or range) and tell you what ports are open, what O/S it's running and maybe even the packages installed on the O/S. Yeah sure there are things out there that can do what I want though I want to create MINE

Also it's good to learn from. Yeah reading is good though you really need to play with something to know it. Best way to learn is to do it.

Best of luck with it

I agree with all points made here....

Although......
It was never my intention to release this program, and it was the header to a post requesting help with a little bit of C lore (which Driver fixed up for me! ). This was purely an exercise to learn more about the C language. I agree that there is one ls program too many (and that's called "d" - it's a GNU command) already and I wouldn't inflict suffering on the *nix world by releasing another!

I think the main thing is the point about waiting until some viable code is available before making an announcement.

Anyways, I will say good luck and I sincerely hope that 1) it helps your knowledge of programming improve, and 2) you release a successful project.

Cheers
ZB

I have started writing the source code, so there is source.

Just because there are many text editors doesn't mean that I should "re-invent the wheel."

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I have a question to ask a few people.

Should the program run on an X11 server (like Ted, the Linux RTF editor), or should it be a program that can run on KDE (like Konqueror)?

It's possible, but there are a few things though:
[list=1][*]You will have to specify an extension, and even if you want to save the document in RTF, it will still be encoded in a TXT format.[*]Such tools like the horizontal and vertical rulers, directory browser, XML and RSS error views, document trees, etc., haven't been added yet.[*]Right now, it is just a simple lightweight program. KewlWrite is supposed to be like an office suite.[/list=1]
Data can still be saved, however.

I will not release any of the source code until I have enough features added.

At various times in the past, I have written, and used on a
daily basis, my own text editor, shell, and mail system. None
of them were released to the public, but writing them taught
me an immense amount about Unix & C, and programming in
general. (The text editor is long gone, I wrote two shells,
(the second one was very good) then switched to bash with
my own modifications, then finally to just stock bash, and
I still use my own mail system.)
Go for it.