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"Clearing" a string
Very basic question, hoped it'd be in an FAQ under some sort of "handy tip" heading.. not so. Anyway, so I have a while loop of some description, a string is read in, I analyse it's contents and act accordingly. At the end of this loop, I want to clear the string, something along the... -
Rebuilding a dev partition file
Ok, problem is my dev/hda5 file was replaced somehow. This file represented a fat32 partition which I'm sharing between windows98 and linux. I must have stupidly saved something over it, god knows how, but in its place was an ascii file containing a bunch of garbage. (But it was viewable, as...- piked
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- Forum: Linux (client/desktop)
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Mounting a fat32 partition in Redhat 7.2
Ok.. Basically I have my HD set up with a 15 gig win98SE primary partition, a 15 gig shared fat32 partition, and a 10 gig redhat 7.2 partition. No problems, got it dual-booting fine. Win98 has no problems recognising the shared drive, and nor did Linux, until I rebooted today and suddenly...- piked
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- Forum: Linux (client/desktop)
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Trying to dual boot Win98SE & Linux, partitioning problem
Basically I'm setting up my computer to dual boot win98 SE and redhat 7.2 on a 40 gig seagate drive. I've used the 98 SE version of fdisk, from the cd, to make 1 primary DOS partition of 15 gig + 1 logical DOS drive of 15 gig. Both have been formatted to FAT32, and there is currently around 8gig...- piked
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Clearing the screen
Hello. Was just wondering if there's a C function to clear the screen, in dos.. without pumping it full of newlines.. the equivalent of CLS, essentially. Thanks.
