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I have an application where I have to read in large quanties of data from a file. The records are mixed binary and ascii having no standard format save a 4 charachter delimiter at both the beggining and end of a record. The delimiter is assummed but not garunteed to only occur there and not in...

I am processing files of our SAN, to minimize network load and load on the SAN (it is an issue in my enviornment) I want to cache the entire file to memory when it's opened. Writing my own file class is what I'm doing right now, but I am finding out how much of a pain it is. The file is part...

I am trying to write a program to verify that a hard drive can store data without corrupting it. I have written a class called randomData that is filled with a std::vector of 1k std::strings. The program prompts you for how big you want to make the class and then how times you want to repeat...

recently I've had to write a couple of apps that parsed text files that were a couple of gigs apiece. I wanted to output to the user that some progress is beeing made, but I don't wan't do it every line. I've come up with two solutions and was wonering which one is closer to whatever the...

I'm trying to make a cgi program that will clean up and validate the requests before passing them on to the appropriate script. After a post, how do I put the string back into stdin so a program that I call using system will have it waiting for it? WR

How do I verify wheather or not a file that i know exists is open by another program. I was thinking of opening a std::ifstream with sharing set to filebuf::sh_none and checking to see if that failed. That is from the old implementation of ifstream though. I was wondering how do I do it with the...

I taught myself c++. I know most of the language. I don't know any API's of substenace. What are some of the resources worth spending time on to improve. I have Soustrop's book and Meyers book. Meyers book is an exellent read, but I also need a resource that goes over the basics like: global...

I have to configure an LDAP server so iplanet can authenticate users. It seems like it's a database that has a hirarchy. So here are some questions pertaining to the technology in general. 1:Why can't I store the data in an actual RDBMS or an XML file? What solutions does LDAP provide? 2:some...

I have a win2k professional SP3 system. It is not part of a domain. It has a corperate baseline loaded, that has been configured so that password complexity requirements and lockout policy applies to the administrator account. When I try to log on it says the administrator account has been...

Does anyone know how to enumerate tcp connections and the associated pids. I looked at the IP helper API but I couldn't find anything that would give me PID's. WR

I am not a dba, but its what I'm stuck doing right now so I have some questions. I have a DB with a couple hundred million records that i need to come up with a backup strategy for. The target is to be at that same point time that the failure occured at within 1 day. Taking the db down for...

I was brushing up on sorting algorithims so I went and wrote a quick sort.It runs successfully and its fast. I looked at some source code online and my code bore no resemlence whatsoever to it so I will post it and ask the following questions. 1:Is this a correct implementation of the quicksort...

I just got my hands on visual c++.net 2002. I am aware that it ships without the optimising compiler but will someone explain why that release build of #include <iostream.h> int main() { cout << &quot;Hello world&quot;; return 0; } compiles to 40k and the release build of #include...