by Douglas C. McArthur
From pizza to protein databases, the World Wide Web helps you to quickly find information on the Internet. But to prepare documents for WWW browsing, you must be familiar with the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Douglas examines HTML coding techniques, while Dan Connelly adds a note on future directions HTML may take.
by Jutta Degener
Jutta provides an overview of GSM 06.10 compression, then presents her implementation of a 32-bit GSM 06.10 coder and decoder written in C that uses the RPE-LTP algorithm.
by Tim Kientzle
Tim's "XYModem" protocol automatically determines which XModem or YModem dialect is being used by the other end.
by Bart De Canne
Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) and Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are two powerful approaches to error-control coding. Bart examines these, using them to encode data in such a way that data errors can be recovered.
by Ian Hirschsohn
In this installment of his two-part article, Ian examines how the STAR peripheral manager uses SCSI-2 as a high-speed network.
by Alberto Daniel Ferrari
Predictability of real-time systems is fundamental to their success or failure. Alberto examines a number of real-time scheduling algorithms which ensure this predictability.
by Bill Wells
More often than not, things don't go right with UNIX serial ports because the serial drivers are often kludges and hacks. Bill implements a reliable serial driver for FreeBSD from the ground up.
by Peter Kent
Spiff up your Windows help systems by adding animation. Peter discusses a pair of toolkits--the Movie Development Kit and DEMOquick--that let you create animations and link them to Windows Help buttons or hot spots.
by Michael Floyd
Mike uses PowerBuilder Desktop and QmodemPro for Windows to build a communications engine which automatically logs onto online services such as CompuServe, MCI Mail, Internet, and DDJ Online, then exchanges e-mail between you and others.
by Michael Swaine
Between attending conferences and picking up the pieces of boxes dropped off by the UPS delivery van, it's all Michael can do sometimes to keep up.
by Al Stevens
Al considers information-retrieval engines and looks at the CEnvi programming tool and its subset language, "Cmm," short for "C-minus-minus."
edited by Bruce Schneier
In this month's column, Pieter Gosselink reviews the two basic approaches to dithering--error distribution and ordered dither-- then presents a technique he's developed that's fast and efficient.
by Ray Duncan
Ray takes a second look at the never-ending deluge of Internet-related books, ranging from how-to books to network-administration guides.
by Jonathan Erickson
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