December 1996
Dr. Dobb's Journal

PTF.ASC
Title: DCE PTHREADS VERSUS NT THREADS
Keywords: DEC96     NT   UNIX    DCE     THREADS
Published source code accompanying the article by Michael Yam in which he ports PTF, a C++ class library for DCE pthreads, from HP-UX System 9 to Windows NT. In doing so, he examines the differences between pthreads and NT threads, and describes the porting experience. Also see PTF.ZIP

PTF.ZIP
Title: DCE PTHREADS VERSUS NT THREADS
Keywords: DEC96     NT   UNIX    DCE     THREADS
Unpublished source code accompanying the article by Michael Yam in which he ports PTF, a C++ class library for DCE pthreads, from HP-UX System 9 to Windows NT. In doing so, he examines the differences between pthreads and NT threads, and describes the porting experience. Requires PKUNZIP.EXE to extract.

WINHELP.ZIP
Title: INSIDE THE WINHELP() API 
Keywords: DEC96     WINDOWS   PORTING    HELP
Unpublished source code accompanying the article by Paul Kissel in which he builds a platform-independent implementation of the WinHelp() function. Requires PKUNZIP.EXE to extract.

VAUDIO.ASC
Title: VIRTUAL AUDIO THROUGH RAY TRACING
Keywords: DEC96    AUDIO    
Published source code accompanying Tom Zudock's article on virtual audio. Tom focuses on how you determine the early reflections generated by a sound source that reach a listener in a simple room. Also see VAUDIO.ZIP.

VAUDIO.ZIP
Title: VIRTUAL AUDIO THROUGH RAY TRACING
Keywords: DEC96    AUDIO    
Unpublished source code accompanying Tom Zudock's article on virtual audio. Requires PKUNZIP.EXE to extract.

LUA.ASC
Title: LUA: AN EXTENSIBLE EMBEDDED LANGUAGE
Keywords: DEC96    SCRIPTING    LANGUAGE
Published source code accompanying the article 
by Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, Roberto Ierusalimschy, Waldemar Celes in which they discuss Lua, a freely-available, general-purpose embedded programming language designed to support procedural programming with data-description facilities. It code compiles without change in most ANSI C compilers, including gcc (on AIX, IRIX, Linux, Solaris, SunOS, and ULTRIX), Turbo C (on DOS), Visual C++ (on Windows 3.1/95/NT), Think C (MacOS), and CodeWarrior (MacOS).

VBTHR.ASC
Title: MULTITHREADING AND VISUAL BASIC
Keywords: DEC96  VISUAL BASIC    MULTITHREADING
Published source code accompanying Dino Esposito's article in which he presents techniques for implementing multithreading under Visual Basic (which does not support native multithreading). Also see VBTHR.ZIP.

VBTHR.ZIP
Title: MULTITHREADING AND VISUAL BASIC
Keywords: DEC96  VISUAL BASIC    MULTITHREADING
Unpublished source code accompanying Dino Esposito's article in which he presents techniques for implementing multithreading under Visual Basic (which does not support native multithreading). Requires PKUNZIP.EXE to extract.

TGIDGI.ASC
Title: EXTENDING HTTP SERVERS WITH DGI AND TGI
Keywords: DEC96    SERVER   HTTP     INTERNET   WWW
Published source code accompanying Andrew Montefusco's article which implements two alternatives to CGI for use in his HTTPD2 server. The alternatives are Task Gateway Interface (TGI) and Dynamic Gateway Interface (DGI). Both approaches avoid the overhead of starting a new process for each separate request. Also see TGIDGI.ZIP.

TGIDGI.ZIP
Title: EXTENDING HTTP SERVERS WITH DGI AND TGI
Keywords: DEC96    SERVER   HTTP     INTERNET   WWW
Unpublished source code accompanying Andrew Montefusco's article which implements two alternatives to CGI for use in his HTTPD2 server. The alternatives are Task Gateway Interface (TGI) and Dynamic Gateway Interface (DGI). Both approaches avoid the overhead of starting a new process for each separate request.
Requires PKUNZIP.EXE to extract.

WINBATCH.ASC
Title: EXAMINING THE WINBATCH TOOLKIT
Keywords: DEC96    NETWORKS    BATCH LANGUAGE
Published source accompanying Dot Schryver's article that describes WilsonWare's WinBatch Toolkit, which provides traditional batch-language file-management capabilities, is based on a structured programming model. 

VFP.ASC
Title: WEB PROGRAMMING WITH VISUAL FOXPRO
Keywords: DEC96    WWW   DATABASE   VISUAL PROGRAMMING
Published source accompanying George F. Goley's article on Visual FoxPro, a cross-platform, visual tool for database development which includes a number of wizards. Here, George uses the WWW Search Page Wizard to run Visual FoxPro programs across the Internet. 

AA1296.ZIP
Title: ALGORITHM ALLEY
Keywords: DEC96     ALGORITHMS     TEXTURES
Unpublished source code accompanying Rafael Collantes-Bellido's use of differential equations to produce natural-looking textures. Requires PKUNZIP.EXE to extract. 

UD1296.ZIP
Title: UNDOCUMENTED CORNER
Keywords: DEC96     MFC   UNDOCUMENTED   UI
Unpublished source code accompanying George Shepherd and Scot Wingo's column on the undocumented areas of CSplitterWnd, one of the most complicated and confusing of all MFC classes. Requires PKUNZIP.EXE to extract.

CPROG126.ASC
Title: C PROGRAMMING COLUMN  
Keywords: DEC96  C   C++   WINDOWS     UNDO
Published source code accompanying Al Stevens column in which he builds presents a generic UnDo class library.

JAVAQ&A.ZIP
Title: JAVA Q&A
Keywords: DEC96  JAVA   UI  AWT  DRAG-AND-DROP   FTP
Unpublished source code accompanying Cliff Berg's column in which he presents a technique for building a drag-and-drop interface using standard AWT components. In doing so, he builds an application which lets end-users perform a host-to-host file transfer. Requires PKUNZIP.EXE to extract.

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