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C Programming, Open Source, Windows »
As long as there is no device like the /dev/zero from unix on windows and no other alternative build in (or at least I don’t any), I decided (also out of some boredom) to write a tiny C program providing such functionality.
With the DevZero program you can create files of a given size of bytes, filled with null characters (0×00).
It is not really a device like a /dev/zero in unix and has a quite limited functionality, but feel free to expand or modify it, if you have some great ideas.
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Normally I wanted to write about our last project, how to build a NES adapter for the PC, but without epoxy the project stays unfinished and has to wait… It’ll come soon – promise!
But instead I was inspired by a nice idea of Matt LeStock, how to set up a simple SSH tunnel on Windows and Linux machines. I took his manual an decided to write a batch file for this purpose and for all the people who hate memorizing command line parameters (although this one is really easy).
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C Programming, Windows »
It’s only a few days ago, that Rasco published his Chat server in C. With the first view to the code I noticed that it’s a unix only code, but it does not has to be and so I decided to port the program to the Windows platform.
It was only a change of a few lines. I had to put unix headers in a #ifndef _W32 block and add the WSAStartup() function.
I made the port with Dev-C++ 5, but it should be not to difficult to compile it with MinGW …
