Have you ever wanted to read a file one line at a time in a shell script and found the task to be a lot more trouble than you ever imagined? If you use a “for line ...

SAS/ACCESS software uses SAS/ACCESS descriptor files to establish a connection between the SAS System and ADABAS. You create these files with the ACCESS procedure. There are two types of SAS/ACCESS ...

Last week’s column looked at how we can read from and write to files by associated the files with user-defined file descriptors. This week, we take this idea a bit further. Closing File Descriptors In ...

An access descriptor only describes a DBMS table's format and contents to SAS software; that is, it is a master file of the table's information for SAS software. You cannot use an access descriptor in ...

When using a large number of Virtual Hosts, Apache may run out of available file descriptors (sometimes called file handles) if each Virtual Host specifies different ...

OK, I am trying to convert a small bit of code from using old-style <fstream.h> headers to <fstream>. I am guessing that ofstream::fd() has been deprecated. In that case, what's the established method ...