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    ms excel programing using vba

    The easiest way to determine this is to turn on macro recording, do the action, turn off recording and go look at the macro created.
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    initializing multidimentional arrays

    Instead of declaring the character layout, declare month to be an array of pointers: char *month[12]; Then in the routine where you want to initialize the values, month[0] = "Jan"; or equivalent programming. You can assign the pointer; you cannot assign a character array.
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    Default Behaviour of SIG-ALARM

    Like all unhandled signals, an unexpected SIGALRM will cause the receiving process to be killed.
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    code to find a file in linux

    The code depends, of course, on your platform O/S. On UNIX, you can take advantage of the system *find* command to search for a wildcard-spec filename. On Windows, you could use the DOS find command, but it can't take wild cards (and is incredibly klunky to boot). Your best bet there is to...

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