4/29    I need help getting information off a web site.  A page presents
        information about an item in locations spread througout the page.
        Each page presents information about one item. What is a quick and
        easy way to go through several pages, capture all the information
        related to each item, and put them into a spreadsheet with a unique
        index?  I think this might be possible by scraping the screen, but how
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8/30    Ok this is pretty basic but... is there a way to "escape" text to
        avoid it being substituted by C preprocessor macro expansion?
        \_ Wouldn't that functionality make C preprocessing as powerful as
           lisp's quasiquote/escape? -- ilyas
           \_ Squish!  Isn't it illegal to talk about lisp on the motd?!
        \_ In general no.
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8/18    Doesn't math.h define min() and max() functions?  What should I include
        to get them?  I'd rather not do the (a < b) ? a : b thing.  Thx
        \_ No.  Many programmers define it as a new macro.  Don't know what
           gcc people do, offhand.
        \_ OS X has fmin(3)/fmax(3) which conform to ISO/IEC 9899:1999(E).
           Linux might have these too.
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7/12    Someone please explain the following?
        ((size_t )& ((SomeVar *)0)->Field);
        \_ It's a hideous abuse of C++ syntax and results in undefined
           behavior.  It appears to be an attempt to find out the offset of the
           member "Field" in the class/struct type SomeVar.  Ow, ow ow.
           \_ This is actually not undefined, in C or C++.  It is hideous,
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7/4     Is there something like a macro in Perl?  Couldn't find any in
        the Camel book.
        \_ If you truly need macros in Perl, you probably want AUTOLOAD.
           Of course, if you truly need macros, Perl is the wrong language for
           what you are doing.  -- ilyas
        \_ I don't know perl, but don't almost all interpreted languages have
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2/13    Where can I get c macro specifications? What keywords to look in
        google?
        \_ You might also want to find a good book on the specification of
           English, so you don't have to look like an ignorant tool asking
           a simple C question.
        \_ what do you want to know?  There's the C language spec that you
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11/26   what preprocessor macro is defind on FreeBSD so that I can write
        conditional code only for FreeBSD? i am using gcc...
        What about solaris? Thanks.
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11/26   what preprocessor macro is defind on FreeBSD so that I can write
        conditional code only for FreeBSD? i am using gcc...
        What about solaris? Thanks.
        \_ You can use __FreeBSD__ and __sun to tell the difference between
           FreeBSD and Solaris; you can also use __i386 and __sparc if you
           want to know the CPU type.  (These all work with Sun's C compiler
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8/10    I just build a AMD2500+ computer and overall I'm pretty happy with
        it. However it seems to output a lot more heat than my P4. Is this
        normal?
        \_ yes AMD cpus consume more power and run hotter
        \_ I hope you're not settling for a stock fan, and you have at least
           2-3 case fans.
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12/4    M$ Excel qn: I have a column of 10000 numbers.  Is there any easy way
        to create another column of 1000 numbers where each number is the sum
        (or average) of the corresponding 10 numbers in the first column?  Thx.
        \_ should be do-able with the Fill-Down menuu item.
        \_ what exactly do you mean by corresponding 10 numbers?
        \_ he means you have column A which has "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10", and
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04/20   I'd like to have C/C++ macro which would replace any comma
        seperated list of variables with an expression which uses those
        variables.  For example:
        DO_SOMETHING(a,b,c,d) becomes=> expression a,b,c,d
        DO_SOMETHING(a,b) becomes=> expression a,b
        In other words, I don't know how many variables may be used ahead
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