2004-01-12 10:05:15 CST

A collection of library routines, named libtalisman for historical reasons.

Interesting inclusions:

void Daemon(const char *ausdatei)

   A daemonizing function for the current process.

ostream& Error(ostream &o)
ostream& Error(ostream &o, Message msg)

   C++ iomanip extensions to print out the text corresponding to errno.

char *Fgetstr(FILE *ifp, const char *terminators)
char *Getstr(std::istream & in, const char *terminators)

   Reads text, until any of a set of terminators is reached,
   into a buffer limited only by available memory and returned as a single
   malloced item.

char *Getpwd(void)

   Returns the current working directory, even if longer than
   MAXPATHLEN or pathconf(".", _PC_PATH_MAX).  Uses efficient dynamic
   allocation like Fgetstr().

Option...

   A set of functions to tie together command line options, configuration
   file options, and output of current settings and per-setting help
   information.   In german.

int Output(const char *format, ...)

   An extremely flexible replacement for printf, including output of
   floating point numbers in any base from 2 to 36, left/right/center
   alignment of text fields, format continuation strings to allow
   interspersed format and arguments, and other features.
   Deprecated, since the main objective - providing base-N output - can
   probably be handled with an extension to the iostream classes.

char *Pathname(const char *orig)

   Returns the result of home-directory expansion on a pathname.

int Pending(FILE *stream)

   A convenient function to check for available input on a FILE*.

int    Random(int low, int high)
double RandomDouble(double low, double high)

   Convenience function for generating random numbers in a range.

ntree

   A STL extension class for working with N-trees.  Supports <algorithm>
   components such as transform(), allocators, and so forth.  Currently
   in pre-alpha development (2004-01).