Jim Hall
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Programming
Two methods to load a data file into memory. Use mmap on Linux sysetms.
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David Both
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Enjoy the holidays by writing a 'fire' program in ASCII text.
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Don Watkins
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Generate colorful ASCII art from a C program using FreeDOS.
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