After months of delay, I’ve finally produced something useful. I’ve written the tool I mentioned in my previous post, and I implemented the usage in the same way I described (with a few modifications).
This is the usage instructions I provided with the application. Note that “and” always has higher precedence than “or”, and there’s no [...]
Faithful followers of the Thing a Week project, rejoice! Unexpectedly, I have a submission for week 2 (two days late, but who is paying attention anyhow?).
I’ve decided that DEFLATE (the algorithm used by “zip”, “gzip”, and a few other compression programs) would be a fun algorithm to implement. At this point, I am [...]
Off and on, I’ve always been pretty upset that when processing data in UNIX, you generally have to write out to another file than you read in from. Of course, if you use a vi script or perl, you can have the file be edited in place, but if you want to use the normal [...]