Have you ever wanted to read a file one line at a time in a shell script and found the task to be a lot more trouble than you ever imagined? If you use a “for line ...

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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 ...

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Looks simple enough; you would think there is not much overhead with only those two system calls. In reality, this couldn't be further from the truth. Behind those two calls, the data has been copied ...

SAS/ACCESS software uses SAS/ACCESS descriptor files to establish a connection between the SAS System and ADABAS. You create these files with the ACCESS procedure. There are two types of SAS/ACCESS ...

An access descriptor only describes a DBMS table's format and contents to SAS software; that is, it is a master file of the table's information for SAS software. You cannot use an access descriptor in ...

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 ...