And other Unixy bits & pieces. A tutorial. To follow along with this tutorial you will need a Unix-like system such as Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, or (on Windows) Cygwin. We’ll begin with a very simple C (not C++) program. Unless mentioned otherwise, everything we’ll see about C also applies to C++ (which was designed with C compatibility in mind); in due course we will move onto C++ specifics. Our program, reproduced below in full, is a complete implementation of a read-only “database” of ...
