c guru (bit off topic)

[Andy Sloane]

On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 12:01:11PM +0200, Martin Czech wrote:
> Could one of the c gurus on this list please enlighten me:
> 
> 1. I'm looking for a way to transfer files rapidly into dram.
>    There must be some kind of block-transfer stuff, but how
>    is this encoded in the librarys? fscanf is slow.

You're looking for fread().  
fread(void *ptr, size_t num, size_t size, FILE *fp);
if you want to read a 4k block, do something like char buf[4096];
fread(buf, 4096, 1, fp);

> 2. Does anyone have a (preferable gnu-c) piece of code,
>    that dumps memory into a sound card (soundblaster)?
>    That way I wouldn't need to read the result file
>    into Cool-Edit or something each time a computation
>    is done. 

That's highly operating system dependent.  under linux, it's really easy.
under windows, it's less easy.  under dos, it's not.  I have code for all
three, of course, but it'll take longer to dig out and wipe the dust off my
old DOS stuff. :)

-Andy.