PowerShell is an advanced shell with integration of .NET objects. It's more than just a replacement for the older cmd.exe. It can work with .NET assemblies, process large datasets and even interact with web services. Because of the .NET assemblies su...
In the previous post we made a simple Hello World script using the Common Desktop Environment's Korn shell (dtksh). This time we're going to make a front-end to the ubiquitous wget command. You probably know what wget is, tl;dr it's a program for ret...
Writing Motif GUI applications usually requires some C knowledge and a fair amount of time. But there's another (faster) way to prototype and create simple ones. The Common Desktop Environment comes with a special edition of KornShell with bindings f...
Have you ever wondered if it's possible to swap the value of two variables in C++ without using a third one? Turns out, it's possible and it's not even that hard... First let's say that we have two integers stored in two separate variables, like this...