File Definition and 575 Threads

So say, I'm writing a program with an infinite loop, and that I'm trying to write a file that is as large as the disk drive is, in the smallest possible time. What would be the best algorithm to do it? Clearly, such an algorithm would consume as many system resources as it possibly could. So...

Hi Sorry for the ambiguous title. I am looking to write a program that, upon dragging and dropping a text file onto it in Windows, it will do some pre-determined manipulation to the text, like deleting a certain amount in the beginning, replacing spaces with tabs, etc. If you couldn't...

Word: won't autosave - "file in use" (This is entirely unrelated to my earlier post about a Word problem). I'm writing in a Word doc as I've been doing for several days now. Today when I opened it up, after ten minutes (my autosave is set for ten minutes), it give me the following errors...

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/04/155257 http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1167818524831 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6722187 So Nixon and Reagan used the FBI for political purposes. Is that legal?

I want to convert canberrra CNF spectrum file to ASCII file. I found a program (IAEA, Winspedac) for converting, but program needed sad.dll file. :confused: Please help me. :cry: Thanks a lot.

Hi, I have a text file with 3 columns (latitude, longitude, & station name) and 51 rows. Using fscanf I am able to read the first row of the file but not the whole file. Any ideas of how to read to the end of a text file that contains both numbers and letters? This is what I have...

hey, For this program I am writing in C, I am using stdio and the scanf function to detect input. Now, the person using the program commands in linux for the input to be given from a file, but the problem is I don't know how long the file is. So i have to keep scanf'ing until the file is...

Opening a fortran .exe file from Visual Basic Dear friends, I want to do something that is probably not too hard, I just can't figure it out. I want to call a executable (.exe) file that I have written in Fortran from my visual basic code. Let's say push a button and it automatically runs my...

I have a terrible avi file where the object is moving across the screen and I need to align this so that the object is still. Is there a program that can do this sort of thing? I was thinking that I'd have to convert it to gif so that I can align it since this is the only way I know you can...

I'm writing a large amount of data to a binary file. Trouble is, I don't know how much until the program finishes executing. Given this, I'd like to rewind back to the beginning of the binary file and write an element indicating how many records I wrote to the binary file - this way I can...

Hi, I am trying to display all the records stored in a file(Banac.dat) but the program keeps on returning the first record over and over again in an endless loop ( i think its endless). If anyone could help me, it would be appreciated. For the sake of simplicity, I've only included the...

I have this file that has no extension (not just bcs it's hidden), so I don't know what to use to open it. Do you guys have any ideas on how to figure out what the file is?

I have tree files of IR spectra but I cann't open them, because I have no suitable software. I need to open them. does somebody knows some kind of freeware which I can use to open this files. or if somebody can I will send this files to open and copy them into MS Word and send them back to me...

If anyone has omnigraph, download the ogr file from this site: Then fast forward the dynamic constant.

I got a voicemail on my phone this morning from a girl who was working on a video for a friend, and she accidently saved over her file with basically an empty version. She was wondering if there was anyway to get back the file she was working on. I was looking into programs like "Recover my...

I am trying to send a .java file as an attachment in my email. the problem is that when guy who received my email open his email, all he see s is the java code in plan text format. I want the person who received my email to open the attachment, and automatically invoke his java compiler, and my...

In earlier versions of Windows, all one had to do to change a file type is simply rename the extension. How, though, does one change a file's type in Windows XP? For example, I have some downloaded video files that are listed as "htm" files. When opening them in Windows Media Player, I get a...

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I have installed Python in a Windows environment and I want to load files to execute them in Python. I have tried "import testprogram.py" and it does load the program and executes it (all the program does is to print something out on the screen) but then there are error messages...

HELP Me I need this file! Quick! Hey I need some help... I am a student in high school and I don't have administrative access. So my prediciment is this: I have a file on the hard drive and XP Pro won't let me access it. It says you cannot access this file you do not have permission. I...

hey y'all I need help putting passwords on documents, i.e. these documents CANNOT be opened unless the password is provided. This could also be for a folder. Like I have documents in a folder, and I do not want anyone else to have access to this folder, I would therefore like to password...

My friend and I are developing a BitTorrent Client for our CS class, but we've run into a dilemma. If anyone can point us in the right direction we'll be thankful. A little background info if you're unfamiliar with BT. The file that is to be downloaded from multiple peers is broken up into...

The Problem (from the handout, word for word): Write a program that reads a list of integers from the file "numbers.in" into an array, which I will call numbers. Then sort the numbers into 3 groups, a group of odd numbers, a group of even numbers, and a group of negative numbers, use an array...

URGENT: ".GPM" file format - CAD/DXF? Does anyone know what software a .GPM (Graphics Printing Format) file can be opened in? It seems to be related to CAD and .DXF formats. If anyone has a piece of CAD software that they could use to open this I'd sure appreciate it. (I'll fwd the file to you...

:mad: i can't find any bacth file commands anyone know were to find some?

I'm trying to come up with a C++ program that reads input from a text file. Each line of this text file has a different variable. I have different data types (int, string, char). I'm having difficulty to read strings with spaces and read char's. The rest seems to work fine. If possible, I'd like...

I'm trying to save an Excel spreadsheet as a (tab-delimited) text file for input into another database. For some reason, fields containing a comma are being displayed in the text file within quotes, which I don't want. For example: John Doe appears as: John Doe Doe, John appears as: "Doe...

i woner how torecord a game exe file into a dvd ?

Hi, I have a problem to code this: Image that you have the following file presenting the following decimal values: 2 A 40.0 115.00 1.02842 5.944 10.0528 -1.656 115.00 1.01911 4.678 10.0528 177.078 11 6 100.0 115.00 1.01530 2.392 2.9097 11.933 115.00 1.00338...

does anybody has notes about logic circuit for computer engineering??or any website recommended pls... pls help... thank you...

Hello, I just made a program that puts numbers into a two dimensional array, and then saves them in a text file that looks something like this: 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5...

I have a picture i need to open. Its file extension is .img. How can I open this so I can attach it to Microsoft Word?

Does anyone know whether there is a way to change the icons on a mac, in such a way that the changed icon works for all the files of a certain extension? Like, that all the .ppt files have a new icon associated to them. For those who don't know, you can change a single icon by...

I am trying to open a .tex file. When I clicked on it, it asked what program I wanted to use to open the thing. So I selected wordpad. The thing opened up in wordpad with a blank document. When I selected print preview, it allowed me to scroll through 4 blank pages. Here' s the...

I am reporting on a fatal "Printer Driver Conflict" which I encountered and verified with new versions of Hewlett Packard Pavillion OS involving at least its printer driver groups and erroneous coding affecting the OS's Hal.dll file. Thus far, it appeares HP has not under taken the proper...

MATLAB : how to get the data from a .fig file ? Hello everybody ! I ve a problem on MATLAB : I have 5 .fig files generated and I want to plot all the curves on 1 unique .fig file can u tell me how to do or how to get the data from one .fig file ? thanks a lot serialtom

so i have a few ripped dvds, fight club, pulp fiction etc. anyways I am using winavi to convert .avi files to mpeg dvd vcd etc besides converting the files to dvd which then require my to burn dvds which I am out of what type of file should i convert to MPEG? i have been converting to mpeg...

I know i am dumb with computers, i am embarrassed to ask, but how do find a file path and fix it if it is wrong ?

I've got a couple of thousand pictures in a zillion subfolders (by year/month/day) that were produced by some Mac iPhoto camera software or something. (I am on PC.) It is really a pain to try to work with these files when I can only see a few at a time. I'd like to put them all into one folder...

I haven't been able to get any file sharing programs to work with my computers connection. I'm using a school connection - T1 I think. I've tried Limewire, Ares, and WinMX. I got WinMX to connect and search, but nothing would download - they all just said Waiting for network response and then...

I'm using Windows XP, and it comes with its own unzipping program. I'm trying to unzip an ACE file...but when I click "Open With", the option to "unzip it"...treat it as a ZIP file...is not there! No option even there! Instead...I just a get a useless list of all my desktop programs. Where...

Does anyone know a good website, or have a PDF file that gives a good introduction to congruencies? I can't seem to find one on the internet. Thanks for your help.

How can i shaer filesbetween madrake and winxp ? i dunno. how to set up file shareing betw them by a cable, not a printer cable ? Thanks a lot.

The file or directory is corrupt and unreadable -- and my life with it Hello. I have two harddrives, C:\ and F:\. The other day, I tried to access my F: drive and it said it was not formatted. I did NOT formate it because I didnt want to lose all my data. I restarted my computer, and the...

Hi everyone, I need to write a C code program to count the # of fuctions used in a certain file (function counter) Can you guys give me some hints/suggestions/ideas ? Thanks, Stan

How do you create an exe file in visual c++? I was unable to find any relavent information in the help files. I'm looking to save my program as an exe so that it can be ran on any computer by simply opening the exe file.

How can i read file data into 2d vector ?thanks

Some months ago, I lost (or perhaps Windows lost) about 1.5 GB of data. Actually, the files were still there, but the FAT got hosed. I did not realize it at the time and unfortunately had saved some stuff to the HD. Once I realized what had happened I got a copy of "File Scavenger" -...

I want to write a program in Java that reads RGB information pixel-by-pixel from an image file, processes that information, and then writes it to a text file. I know how to do everything except read from the image file. I'm thinking a Bitmap file might be the best choice for the image file...

Hi, I am new here and this is the first time for me to use this kind of a forum and I think that I delete by mistake my first post so here it is again. I am a russin student and I got an email with this attached file (I got newer version of it yesterday). It looks very interesting but...