Last week’s column looked at how we can read from and write to files by associated the files with user-defined file descriptors. This week, we take this idea a bit further. Closing File Descriptors In ...

An access descriptor contains information about the IMS-DL/I database you want to use. The information includes the IMS-DL/I database name, the IMS-DL/I field names and their default SAS formats, ...

Recently I needed to create a script that processed two input files. By processed I mean that the script needed to get a line from one file, then get a line from the second file, and then do something ...

I am a bit new to socket programming, but I am working on making a server for educational purposes. Everything works great, have multiple connections. The problem comes when I ctrl X one of the ...

Hello<BR><BR>What follows is a description of a problem I used to have when running FreeBSD 5.0 and 5.1. I am not running FreeBSD right now, but I am considering going back to it but I need to figure ...

If you add additional read lines before the loop, you can often get additional filenames to print before you get the error. So it seemed like the pipe from the ...