Miscellaneous articles

A collection of technical articles that do not fit in any of the other categories.

SvnRev: stamp your applications with revision numbers

2008-02-08
SvnRev is a little program that writes the current revision number of project into a C/C++ header file. It retrieves the revision number from keywords that the Subversion version control system maintains in the source code.
    Most recent update: SvnRev now also detects whether the local working copy contains changes that are not yet committed in version control.

Periodic Interrupts with the Real Time Clock

2001-09-06
This is an old article that I originally uploaded to one of the CompuServe forums. It is now available here upon a reader's request. The example source code (int70.asm)) is in a separate file. It is quite possible that there has existed a second example program (in C), because the article mentions the need of a C compiler. That file is lost, however.
    Other than changing the e-mail address, I have made no modifications to the article (not even HTML formatting). So the article talks about 80386 and 80486 processors and about DOS and Windows 3.1. The RTC hardware has not changed since those days, however.