Dr. Dobb's Journal of Software Tools, the most respected source of knowledge on the powerful C language, now brings you a comprehensive anthology of Allen Holub's popular "C Chest" columns, along with the lively philosophical and practical discussions they inspired. The anthology also includes several additional information-packed articles written by well-known C experts. C Chest and Other C Treasures provides a collection of useful subroutines and practical programs written in C that are available on disk with full source code. Some of the many topics covered are: pipes, wild-card expansion, and quoted argu-ments; sorting routines; command-line processing; queues and bit maps; utilities such as Is, make, and more; hyphenation; IBM cursor control and an Fget that edits; how to do redirection; accessing IBM video display memory; trees; an AVL tree database pack-age; directory traversal; sets; shrinking EXE file images; hashing, expressions, and Roman numerals; and statistical applications of digital low-pass filters. C Chest and Other C Treasures is required reading for all C programmers and enthusiasts.

ISBN: 0934375402