Sunday, May 15, 2005

Java GUIs

Glazed Lists - A toolkit for list transformations: Sort & Filter, Display a list in a JTable, JList or JComboBox, ect.

Laziness, the virtue !

Color Schemes and UIDefaults: "We all know that laziness is a virtue (at least for a programmer). "

Thursday, May 12, 2005

"PRN" file name on Windows

Windows NT 4.0, 95, 98 (?) networked PRN flaw

I suppose that, in an effort to maintain reverse compatibility with
old MS-DOS command line gurus, you cannot create a file or directory
named PRN.xxx where the xxx is replacable with any extension.
Old style MS-DOS command line-ing would allow you to do the following
to print your autoexec file:
C:\>copy autoexec.bat prn
what this actually does is redirect the contents of autoexec.bat to
the port LPT1.
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