Never had a problem with it myself.

I just tried that command out (took a while!) and had no problems at all. But that is what you would download CoreUtils for, so you could use ls instead. But it did work for me.

Total Files Listed:
89247 File(s) 99,000,874,321 bytes
24296 Dir(s)  304,396,386,304 bytes free

And that was just from my user folder, glad I didn't do it from root.

216. I just done it from root so I could be sure to get the longest.

Not yet, no.

I had it on XP, I should try that on my old XP drive, it's still cluttered with old XP stuff....

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Okay, just done that on my XP drive, it has DirectX SDK from March 2009 on it and the longest line was 213.

A reference (object&) works like a regular object but allows you to directly modify another object without explicitly using a pointer to it.

void set_to_5(int& i) {
   i = 5;
}

int num = 0;
set_to_5(num);
printf("num is %i\n" , num);// "num is 5"

From the example they gave, they are using a class method to return a reference to the object in use. This is useful because it allows you to chain function calls. Take for example the basic prototype for operator << for ostream :

template <class Type>
ostream& operator<<(ostream& os , const Type& t) {
   os << t;
   return os;
}

ostream os;
os << a << " plus " << b << " is " << a+b << std::endl;
// (os << a) returns a reference to os, so after this call it becomes
// (os << " plus ") and so on...

You didn't compile as regular C, did you?

Being a class has zero to do with references in C++. Show us the code and we'll help you understand it.

I went back and took a look at my code again and it seems to work better now. The problem is I have an array that I was passing.

void Draw_Everything(Ball &ball, Paddle *paddle)

paddle is an array (paddle[2]), ball is not, so I can use a reference on ball, a pointer on paddle and this way when I call Draw_Everything() I don't need any reference & pointers on either, which is nice.

Been trying to minimize global variables which I have been really bad for in the past. I do like how much more neat and tidy C++ classes seems to be making the code which will help in tracking down bugs I imagine. As I port over old projects, I'll make an attempt at converting to C++ and see how that goes. I have an asteroids "game" (not really a game, just some asteroids floating around) that was an excersize in using linked lists. I looked at it and realized it would convert into a C++ class really easily. There's basically an asteroids struct, with a bunch of functions for handling various things like adding a new asteroid, initializing it, functions for moving it etc...