Things get dated. It is sad, but true. Time marches on and little snippets of code you squirreled away for future use start to not work as good, or not…
OpenVMS
FileZilla and OpenVMS
Oh, you’ve all been there. For whatever reason you are forced to edit something on your Linux desktop (because no professional uses a Microsoft product) Even the editors which _claim_…
Xterm and VT Emulation
Many years ago, when I was writing this book I did so using a Linux desktop using Xterm and the following configuration script. #!/bin/sh # vax # 09-17-96 Bob Ess…
How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 13
Before we jump straight into the code, we need to talk a bit about the design of this application. When I first started coding up a new version using Qt…
How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 6
The Backup Script As I started to get back into this I realized I skipped one final yet critical piece of the system. The backup script. I imagine some of…