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Recent Lessons
- Code Page 437
- December 20, 2025 The myth of "extended" ASCII.
- Dumping the Screen in W-I-D-E Color
- December 13, 2025 Wide characters offer more variety when outputting "plain" text.
- Dumping the Screen in Color
- December 6, 2025 One of my favorite command line tools can do with some colorful improvement.
- Consistently Constant
- November 29, 2025 The only true constant declaration in C is found in the C23 standard and the constexpr qualifier.
- Constantly Complaining
- November 22, 2025 Does the C language really have constants?
This Month's Exercise
- Which is Greatest?
- December 1, 2025 Finding the largest value, or taking the old max() function to the third degree.
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