FYI, Check out your local library..sometimes they get books donated to
them for resale to the public....I've acquired some great books...mostly
college textbooks for $1.00 or less. These books don't sell well so they
offer them cheap. No market according to the librarian I talked to...go
figure.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ian C. Smith <ic...@st...>
To: <dev...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 3:49 PM
Subject: Re Re [Dev-C++] Question of the day
> You wouldn't believe the resources you can find in old bookstores. I
> have this massive programming library, with assembly, routines in
> basic, pascal, advanced debugging techniques, C/C++, Java, Visual
> BASIC and heaps more. All up, probably about $600 worth. I paid,
> roughly, about $50 for the whole lot (spread over a couple of years).
> A lot of them are University-grade text books too.
>
> Ian
>
> On 17 Oct 00, at 15:42, SpiderMan wrote:
>
> > Yes you are right, I checked my book again, \a and \b are very close
together, it was my mistake. I am using the book Object-Oriented Programming
in C++ Second Edition, it's quite old (Copyright 1995) I got it for $9 at a
used bookstore : )
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Matthew Hickson
> > To: dev...@li...
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 9:30 AM
> > Subject: Re: Re [Dev-C++] Question of the day
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> > In my C++ book it says that \b will produce a system beep
through the internal speakers, not erase characters.
> >
> > I have two books, both copyrighted 1998 and covering ANSI/ISO C++.
They both state that \a is for alarm (the bell/beep), and that \b is indeed
a backspace character.
> >
> > However, as has already been mentioned, the backspace is usually not
destructive. It just moves the cursor back one space. To delete a
character you would have to follow the rules for your text interface (I
believe CTRL+H will do... better still, use the hex code for "Delete" -- not
> backspace).
> >
> > It could also be that different compilers handle it differently;
however, the texts I have mentioned cover ANSI/ISO standards which seem to
fall in line with everything I've read regarding C/C++. (You could also
check your man pages if you're a Unix type.)
> >
> > The books, for those who are interested are:
> >
> > 1. C++ How to Program (2e) by Deitel and Deitel (published by
Prentice-Hall... they have a webs
> ite too... www.deitel.com)
> >
> > 2. Ivor Horton's Beginning C++ (The complete language - ANSI/ISO
Compliant edition) by Wrox Pre
> ss. (He's also got a book for MSVC.)
> >
> > Hope that's helpful.
> >
> > Matthew Hickson
> >
> >
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