The C Column Collection

Description:

This book is a collection of all the articles that have appeared in Express Computer under The C Column. These articles do no teach you C language, but instead help you explore the reach of this wonderful language, putting into use several feature in real life programming situations. Comprehensive discussions and numerous tricks, tips and techniques teach you how to fully utilize the speed and energy of C.

Table Of Contents











A Tryst With Video Memory

Adding Colour To Character

Indian And Continental Menus

Menus With A Pinch Of Salt

A Peek Through The Windows

Rap A Tap Tap

Taming The 417

Of Copycats And Supercats

Encoding Of Files

The Space Saver

Tricks Of The Trade

COMMAND.COM I Am Your Master

Freedom At Last

Delete As You Wish

The Directory Tree

Tie Your Bootstraps

PCTOOLS Be Not Proud

Hello Carla Hills!!

Goodbye Carla Hills!!

Diskcopied!!

Taking Apart The Partition Table

Exploring The Partition Table

TSRs,The Hackers Delight

Fun With TSRs

A Virus In The Printer!

Increase Your Moniter Life

How Viruses Work

Removing Boot Sector Viruses

Fooling FORMAT.EXE

Removing Partition Table Viruses

Removing File Viruses

Pointers Unveiled

Pointers And Arrays

Cooking Pointer Stew

Pointers And Strings

Pointers And Structures

Pointers And Functions

Inside The .EXE File

EXE File Which Doesn't Execute!

Where Eagles Dare!

Where Angels Fear To Tread!









The Drive Parameter Block

Deactivating The Drives

Utility Using Undocumented DOS

The Current Directory Structure

The Job File Table

The System File Table

System File Table Unveiled

File Operations-DOS's Way

The Buffer Chain

Contents Of The Buffer Chain

The Device Driver Chain

Tracing The Device Driver Chain

Understanding Memory

A Peek Into The Memory

Exploring The PSP And EB

The Arena Header Chain

How Much RAM Do You Have?

Which Monitor Do You Have?

Banner Command Under dos

wc DOS's Way

tr And tee Under DOS

Dealing With Recursion

Towers Of Hanoi

Courting Eight Queens Amicably

Determinantly Yours

Quick Sort Algorithm

The Intelligent Knight

Exploring The File Allocation Table

Decoding The FAT Entries

The Disk Map

An Elementary CHKDSK

Renaming Directories

The File Find Utility

Find And Delete Utility

The File Undelete Utility

Pointers And Variable Number Of Arguments

How Floats Are Stored

More On Floats And Doubles

Enhancing printf()

Cryptic Programs