Running Graphics-C in windows 7 or Vista

DOSBOX VIEW


I have seen many people struggling over this so just thought to write a small post over this. Most of the SE students are working with the C-graphics and must be finding problem because of the operating system they are using.

One of the two ways is(that i know):

1. Install Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 which is free of cost and plant MS XP in that. Dos mode works fine in XP.

2. I feel this one is better than the 1st one

Download a freeware Dos-box from here .

It's a emulator for dos ....provide a 16bit envoirment. Install the dos-box and open it.

You have to write following lines whenever you start the dos-box which opens just like a normal app.

-- Mount the drive in which you have turbo-C

For example i have turbo-C complier at location C:\tc\bin

so i write

mount c c:\

c:

cd tc

cd bin

tc

Have attached a pic of the same at top.

and you are done with it.

Use the Compiler as you use on a 16-bit machine.

Refining your Google Search

Ever 'Googled' something, and found that most of the links are plain useless?
Here are quick tips to refine your searches:

1. to search within a particular website (from your google home-page), type the keyword to be searched for, followed by "site: www.mysite,com", without the quotes ;) . The site, 'mysite.com' will be searched for the keyword.

2. searching for definitions?, type "define: word", you'll be given links to all the available definitions of the word on the web.

3. to find a phrase, enclose it within " ", and the exact phrase will be searched for.

4. type a + sign before a keyword to search for that specific word only, and not it's variations like plural or any tenses or synonyms.

5. search with a ~ (tilde) before a word, and get results for the word, and it's synonyms. "~auto" searches for both the word auto and its synonyms: truck, car, etc.

6. search for "virus -computer" to get results for virus, but not related to computer.

7. "info: www.mysite.com" searches for information about the given site.

8. "related: www.mysite.com" searches for pages related to the given site.

9. " [#]...[#] ", ([#] represents a number) searches within a range of numbers, e.g. laptop Rs.30,000...60,000 to find laptops within this range.

10. xyz * abc searches for the words xyz and abc separated by a word or two.

P.S. @ d3mOn, I did StumbleUpon it.