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Hello, You are probably right. The long cable is a category 5; I just checked it is a straight cable. The short one must be a crossed cable, I'll check it this evening. Thank you. W

Hi! I want to connect two computers by ethernet, in order to share a DSL internet connection. I am thinking of a peer to peer connection, no hub (for the moment). My computers will be eventually located some distance away, so I bought a 40 meters (130 feet) ethernet cable. I have configured...

Hi, It's a good question and I'm facing the same problem as you. I'm afraid this is again a partial answer... The problem is that the JPEG format is not a built-in standard in Windows. The conversion cannot be done by the system WIN32 itself. Applications typically use some DLLs which provide...

Hi, computer programming is typically the kind of activity that you can learn by yourself. Lot of people in this field are self-taught. Personnally I never had a single lesson on programming at school, and learnt all I know "by doing". These days programming skills are in demand, and...

Hi, You absolutely need to learn C and C++ (caution, despite similarities, these are different languages). To my opinion knowing C is not a prerequisite to learn C++ (I learnt C++ first). But if you don't have a good knowledge of the general mechanisms of programming, you may find C easier to...

Hi! Thank you very much. I didn't know that trick. In my case, it didn't work but I think it is because my lib file is in fact an import lib, not an object lib (no source code inside). Then it raises the next question: if you have a DLL file, how do you turn it into an +object+ lib? Thanks to...

Hi! This looks like a school case. I am working with Borland C++ 5.02. I have an external lib file and its associated dll version, and a header file declaring all the exported functions. I have a project in which I call a function from the lib. I want this function to be linked statically...

Hi, 3 remarks. Maybe one would help? 1. I think that the STL was included in Borland C++ starting from release 5. Make sure of what BCW you are using and if it includes the STL. 2. By the way, if I remember correctly, STL lies in a "classlib" folder. Please make sure of that. In...

Hi, It's hard to catch what may be wrong for sure. Your problem may be due that file 1 includes file 2 and file 2 includes file 1. Kind of round trip. It is most of the time possible to get out of this kind of problem by a careful organisation of declarations and definitions. I don't know if...

Hi! I'm not sure to understand your problem. Why not trying a DC? What I know and tell you in case of, is that when I need to use graphics for Windows under BC++ 5.0 I just create an instance of a TDC class, which has all the graphics capabilities: dot; line; polygon; filling routine...

Hi! With BCW's EDI 5.02 you can inspect variables by going in the Debug -> Inspect Variables or Debug -> Evaluate sub-menus. By the way, in reference to your previous thread (how to pass cmd-line args) I checked that you can do this from the EDI, Options -> Environment -> Debugger sub-menu...

Hi! you declare your entry point in the usual fashion: int main (int argc, char **argv) for console apps; int OwlMain (int argc, char **argv) if you use the OWL framework; etc... You can transmit the argument from the DOS command line, the same way you do from UNIX terminal; Or you can also...

Hi! Well, this is a long mail. I took the trouble of elaborating a long answer to your interesting question. Hope it helps! The concept of pointers comes from the machine language, where variables are handled as memory locations ("address").The same concept has been imported...

Hello, I think you can find such a simple editor among the numerous examples provided with Borland C++ 4.5 or 5.0 (I don't know about previous versions). I can't remember which one right now, but I've seen it, with the complete source code, and the usual fonctionalities: new, save, save as...

Hi everybody! Does anybody know about any Rose UML model of Borland's OWL? Combining both Rational Rose and OWL would be very powerful. Thanks in advance Woliwol PS I'm not yet registered in this Forum, and thus did not vote yet, but I am 100% happy working with Borland C++ v5.02.