You have not answered my email [...]
First of all note that
emails requiring action from me can remain up to a month in my inbox.
Due to the huge number of spam virus messages I am receiving
I have implemented a very aggressive email filtering policy
based on spamassassin.
I also manually delete suspicious email messages without a second thought.
An email titled "Urgent assistance required" or containing an
executable program, is guaranteed to get trashed.
Finally, I seldom answer email messages that do not require an answer,
or are answered in this FAQ list.
Based on the above, consider resending me your email, if you
think you should have gotten a reply.
Can you please post/email me your paper titled [...]?
Please download it from my publications page.
If it is not there, I do not have it.
I sent you a Facebook friend request and you seem to have ignored it. Why?
I use Facebook to keep track of the names and faces of the people I know.
If your Facebook profile doesn't include your real name or a recognizable
face, or if I don't know you (even through email), I will ignore the
request.
Also note that when I'm busy I acknowledge friend requests in batches
so it can take up to a week to process your request.
What is the latest version of your [...] program?
Where can I find it?
Look in my public software page.
If it's not there, I don't have it or it's not fit for release; sorry.
I need to write a program to add hexadecimal integers /
do heapsort / calculate factorial / solve the n-queens problem.
Can you please help me?
Sorry, I do not do classwork assignments.
In addition, the idea of assignments is to do them on your own.
Hello,
I'm a Science Computing student at [...], and would like to keep
contact with you and the others authors of the article XYZ
That is because we are make a reserch over XYZ.
We are looking for some comments, scientific articles and some other
stuff on that subject. We also have some questions about the mentioned
article .
Thanks for your atention,
Read the answer to the previous question.
I'm looking for documentation on how to check the validity of
credit card numbers.
Read the international standard ISO/IEC 781:1989 (I do not know
where you can find it; contact ISO.)
Alternatively
download the "Credit Card Checksum" function from my
public software page.
Can I use your trace program to trace Windows applications?
Trace is a 16 bit MS-DOS application and can not be used to trace
Windows programs.
Where can I find information on Greek character font encoding?
Have a look at RFC-1947 and at this table.
In RFC-1947
you refer to 'M7' as being character set 8859-7 as implemented
in Microsoft Windows 3.1, 3.11 or 95. How does this differ, if at all, to
Windows CP1253?
RFC-1947 M7 is Windows CP1253.
At the time the RFC was written I was not aware of that code page designation.
Where can I obtain Greek standard documents (keyboard layout,
transcription, transliteration, encodings, etc.)?
From the Greek Standards Organisation (ELOT). Their address is:
Axarnon 313
GR-111 35 Athens
GREECE
I have a problem reading / viewing / loading / converting / writing
/ processing Greek files on my computer.
Can you please help me?
I am very sorry, but I really have not got time to answer to such questions.
Try consulting a local expert, a friend, or your computer or operating system
vendor.
You could also try to convert the files into a format you can process
using my grconv Greek code converter.
I found your obfuscated C code contest program
[name of winning program].
Is there an unobfuscated version of it?
Can you please explain me how it works?
The #include "/dev/tty" program (1988 best abuse of the rules winner) runs
whatever C code you type at the (Unix) terminal at compile time.
The Basic interpeter (1990 Best Language Tool winner) and
the Basic compiler (1991 Most Well Rounded winner)
programs are analysed in: Don Libes.
Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries.
John Wiley and Sons, 1993.
The 1995 Abusing The Rules winner program [ab]uses the contest rules
that allowed a generous amount of whitespace for improving the
entries' format by encoding text as whitespace
Can I use your Basic compiler program to convert Basic programs
into C?
The compiler only works for a small subset of Basic and produces
quite inefficient code.
I do not recommend it.
Can I use your Basic interpreter program to run Basic programs?
The interpreter only works for a very small subset of Basic and its
runtime efficiency is abysmal (the interpreter is actually implemented
as a custom virtual machine executed by a VM interpreter written in C).
There are at least two free Basic interpreters that may suit your purpose:
yabasic and
bwbasic.
The former is a plain Basic interpreter,
or really p-code compiler + interpreter, like
Perl.
The latter provides a classic Basic "IDE", with line-number-based editing
and all; unrecognized commands are executed by the shell, immediately
or as part of the program.
oth are available under the GPL for Microsoft Windows and Unix systems.
(Contributed by
John Cowan).
Did you ever do any additional work on the DDS-BASIC interpreter/compiler?
No, I consider IOCCC submissions a form of art. They are not to be "improved".
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