Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!husc6!m2c!wpi!greyelf From: greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Hyperc more questions... Message-ID: <9678@wpi.wpi.edu> Date: 14 Mar 90 23:57:21 GMT Reply-To: greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender) Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA Lines: 24 Well by this point I've spent a LOT of time playing with hyperc, and still have some questions. How do I fetch a random number for making games? How do we create a system file that can be executed independent of the shell? Is there a nice clean way to scan the keyboard or a string for decimal numbers, hex numbers, etc.? like sscanf("%d %c", a,b); How do I access the printer? I haven't got my computer set up right now, but when I do I'll upload a few commands I wrote for the c system. Oh, and how is memory allocated under C? If I patched Daemon into C, we might really have something... --- Michael J Pender Jr Box 1942 c/o W.P.I. W.O.S. is not dead. greyelf@wpi.bitnet 100 Institute Rd. ...its time to get started, greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu Worcester, Ma 01609 there is much to be done. If my next computer isn't a IIgs, it won't be an apple... Me.