LibTools is a library of functions I found myself creating and copying over and over. I finally decided to put them all into a single static library and eliminate the redundancy. Then I got carried off with the whole library thing and started dumping everything that might some day be useful in another project.

Base64 is a text-to-binary and binary-to-text encoding/decoding scheme that represent binary data (more specifically, a sequence of 8-bit bytes) in an ASCII string format by translating the data into a radix-64 representation.

• base64_encode
• base64_decode

Not a lot going on in any og the file functions. It was simply easier to call a library function that has error checking etc. built in.

• file_open_read
• file_open_write
• file_open_write_no_dup
• file_open_append
• file_close
• file_read_text
• file_read_data
• file_stat
• file_ls
• file_path_to_lib
• file_unzip
• file_dir_exist

More or less a ripoff of the html2txt application. The input is in html format and the output has all the html formatting stripped out.

• html2txt
• html2txt_str_2_char

A complete (or as much as I have ever needed) set of tools for managing a link list. In this implementation the link list ONLY manages pointers to the data the list is managing.

• list_new
• list_kill
• list_get_first
• list_get_next
• list_get_prev
• list_get_last
• list_put_first
• list_put_last
• my_list_delete
• list_query_count
• list_user_lock
• list_user_unlock
• list_fget_first
• list_fget_next
• list_fget_prev
• list_fget_last
• list_fput_last
• list_fdelete
• list_debug_dump_list

Just a logging tool where messages may be written to a terminal and/or a log file.

• log_init
• log_write

Nothing magical here. These functions are not much more than a wrapper around malloc and free, that is until you discover a memory leak. There are imbedded tools that can assist in tracking down the leak so it can be fixed. Naturally this comes with a small performance impact.

• mem_init
• mem_malloc
• mem_free
• mem_sizeof
• mem_dump

Create and manage messaging queues to pass information between threads.

• queue_init
• queue_new
• queue_get_id
• queue_get_count
• queue_put_payload
• queue_get_payload

So SHA-1 is old and broken. That being said I have been using it for years to create checksums for pieces of data to manage their uniqueness.

• sha1_init
• sha1_update
• sha1_final
• sha1_sum

Used to manage application parameters where they may be stored and retrieved the next time the application is run.

• store_init
• store_get
• store_put

As you have probably guessed this is nothing more than a set of function calls to open/close, send/receive information across a TCP/IP interface.

• tcpip_init
• tcpip_rcv_open
• tcpip_rcv_connection_open
• tcpip_snd_open
• tcpip_close
• tcpip_snd_data
• tcpip_rcv_data
• tcpip_get_data

A set of text manipulation and management tools.

• text_atox
• text_space_fill
• text_to_uppercase
• text_to_lowercase
• text_to_int
• text_skip_past_whitespace
• text_remove_crlf
• text_strip_whitespace
• text_is_blank_line
• get_cmd_line_parm
• is_cmd_line_parm
• text_copy_to_new
• text_title_case
• text_next_word
• text_datastring_to_ascii
• text_insert
• text_remove
• text_replace
• text_center

Again, not much more then a wrapper around the posix threading tools. The tools just take some of the work out of using threads.

• thread_new
• thread_flow_init
• thread_resume
• thread_wait

Some time ago I was in need of a token manager and this is what came out of it. I can't say it has been of much use since then.

• token_init
• token_get
• token_free