Tag Archives: Programs

Andrew M. Kuchling Issue #49, May 1998 A Python SIG has put together a DB-API standard; Mr. Kuchling gives us the details. Many people use Python because, like other scripting languages, it is a portable, platform-independent and general-purpose language that can perform the same tasks as the database-centric, proprietary 4GL tools supplied by database vendors. Like 4GL tools, Python lets ...

David Mosberger Issue #47, March 1998 SANE makes it easy to support a wide variety of devices and of applications with a minimum amount of programming effort. SANE stands for “Scanner Access Now Easy”. It is a universal interface that enables you to acquire images from any device that produces raster images, including flatbed scanners, video and still cameras and ...

Larry Ayers Issue #43, November 1997 Larry Ayers, author of many articles for both Linux Journal and Linux Gazette, interviews Robert Nation, the creator of FVWM and RXVT.         The Interview Robert Nation’s name crops up often in the man pages and other documentation of Linux software. He was involved in the early development of several key ...

Thor Sigvaldason Issue #40, August 1997 We learn to write an application with XForms by simulating a game with 2 players and 2 actions. Last month we began this series on XForms by explaining how to install the forms library and include file. We also took a stab at programming with XForms by writing a couple of simple programs. In ...

Mike Mull Issue #37, May 1997 In a sequel to his “Perl and Sockets” article in the March 1997 issue of Linux Journal, Mike Mull demonstrates how Perl can be used for the server end of a socket connection. In my previous article in Issue #35 of Linux Journal, I wrote about the socket library functions in Perl with an ...

Andrew M. Bishop Issue #36, April 1997 You may rely on your electronic Rolodex to organize your life, but Linux uses the /proc file system. The /proc file system is a part of Linux that most people have not investigated deeply—perhaps may have never heard of. Like the kernel itself, it is a vital part of a Linux system. Yet ...

Jim Hill Issue #35, March 1997 Does setting up UUCP scare the hell out of you? No more! Read on. Discovering the Internet in a college environment, I was always very casual about the time I spent on-line. Since I didn’t get a direct bill from the university, there was no reason to keep track of it. All that changed ...

Gregory A. Meinke Issue #27, July 1996 As Esther Dyson put it, “Using tables to store objects is like driving your car home and then disassembling it to put it in the garage. It can be assembled again in the morning, but one eventually asks whether this is the most efficient way to park a car.” Applications are getting more ...