On , Robin Sheppard (1:153/307{at}fidonet) wrote: 

 JH> BTW, what is the SNIPPETS archive?  Is that internet, or Fido?

 > I think you can grab it from some FTP or WWW site, and it's on a bunch of
 > local BBSs.  I've never actually picked up a copy myself, so I probably
 > should.  Without internet access, I'll have to see if a recent copy is
 > kicking around on any of the boards I call.

Robin...

  If you can't find it, let me know and I'll send you a copy attached to a
NetMail message.

 > If you can't find it, ask Tom Torfs (he's the moderator here) where to grab
 > it, as he's the one who'll know.

  Since I'm the archivist, I'm also a good one to ask. :-) Here's the FAQ...



  The SNIPPETS archive contains public domain/freeware portable C/C++ source
code & instructional text. ~700 files, including:

  Approx. 70,000 lines of code + approx. 22,000 lines of tutorials.
  Approx. 30% PC-specific, 70% portable
  Approx. 10% C++-specific, 87% C/C++, 3% assembly, AWK, make, etc.

  The PC-specific functions are system-level utility code - no multimedia or
GUI code. Tested on all popular PC compilers plus Unix compilers where
possible. An eclectic collection with everything from macros to complete cut-
and-paste C/C++ code solutions & utilities, along with FAQ and instructional
files.  To be included, files must: 1) answer a "how do I..."  C/C++
question, 2) be clever, or 3) present a solution to an obscure but knotty
problem.

  The current version is SNIP9707.xxx (where "xxx" may be LZH, ARJ, ZIP,
tar.gz, etc.), is ~950K, and is widely available, are are previous versions.

  Beginning with the December '92 release, SNIPPETS has had a companion
SNIPDIFF archive which contains only the changes/additions since the previous
SNIPPETS release plus DOS utilities to create a fully-validated copy of the
current SNIPPETS release from a virgin copy of the previous release. The
current version is SNPD9707.xxx, and is ~115K.

  Beginning with the November '96 release, a text-mode SNIPPETS browser and
viewer is available. It comes with complete source and includes precompiled
verions for DOS and OS/2. The archive name is SNIPVIEW.xxx, and is ~57K.

  Fidonet locations to get SNIPPETS (for FidoNet file requests, the magic
names "SNIPPETS" and "SNIPDIFF" may he used to obtain
the latest versions
from many BBS's):

        1:106/2000
        1:11/70
        1:2320/38 - home of FidoNet Programmer's Distribution Network (PDN)
        Other PDN sites

  Internet locations to get SNIPPETS and SNIPDIFF via anonymous ftp:

        snippets.org          /pub/snippets (.tar.gz available)
          (This is the official SNIPPETS Internet distribution site.)
        connectn.acs.niu.edu  /bbs/rbbs-pc/ra/files/c
        juge.com              /c/file/c
        ftp.funet.fi          /pub/msdos/Simtel/c (Europe)
        ftp.microdot.com.au   /pub/snippets (Australia)
        ftp.simtel.net        /pub/simtelnet/msdos/c (also Simtel CD-ROM)

  World-Wide Web sites

        http://www.snippets.org
          (This is the official SNIPPETS web site home page)
        http://www.strangecreations.com/strange/library/snippets.htm
        http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/simtel-msdos/c/ (Europe)

  Places that may also have SNIPPETS:

        Bix                   page 1445 in the programming RT
        Compuserve
        GEnie
        America Online
        numerous BBS's around the world 


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