Re: viewing mbr os descriptor

[Bill Cunningham]

"Jens Thoms Toerring" <[e-mail] in message
news:69*************@mid.uni-berlin.de...

If you feel that you can't get a grasp om these things I
can only recommend that you use some other language than
C. There are lots and lots of very good languages not re-
quiring you to learn these maybe somewhat arcane things
and which allow you to write great programs. But if you
want to learn C then you also have to learn printf()
format specifiers etc. or it will remain just a very
frustrating experience.
Regards, Jens

I don't feel I can't ever grasp them, I just don't know them. With
printf I know how to use %x and %? what ever after the %. Even whole numbers
and decimals after the %. Now I'm learning as I read about $ and # and even
[ and ] in printf. I haven't seen that in my tutorials or if I remember
correctly maybe not even kandr2.

Bill

[Nick Keighley]

On 19 May, 19:39, "Bill Cunningham" <[e-mail]:

"Jens Thoms Toerring" <[e-mail] in
messagenews:69*************@mid.uni-berlin.de...

If you feel that you can't get a grasp om these things I
can only recommend that you use some other language than
C. There are lots and lots of very good languages not re-
quiring you to learn these maybe somewhat arcane things
and which allow you to write great programs. But if you
want to learn C then you also have to learn printf()
format specifiers etc. or it will remain just a very
frustrating experience.

* * I don't feel I can't ever grasp them, I just don't know them.

few people do. RTFM

With
printf I know how to use %x and %? what ever after the %. Even whole numbers
and decimals after the %. Now I'm learning as I read about $

$ is non-standard. $ isn't even in C's source character set.

and # and even
[ and ] in printf. I haven't seen that in my tutorials or if I remember
correctly maybe not even kandr2.

# is in my K&R (section B1.2 Formatted Output). I generally think
Harbison
and Steel is better for the library. There are online versions of the
(draft but close to final) standard. And the C standard is pretty
readable.
--
Nick Keighley

[santosh]

Nick Keighley wrote:

And the C standard is pretty readable.

Really! Be reasonable now.

And this in reply to Bill? :-)