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From: austin@bucsf.bu.edu (Austin Ziegler)
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Subject: Re: Help...
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Date: 10 Oct 89 18:41:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP's message of 10 Oct 89 11:54:32 GMT

On 10 Oct 89 11:54:32 GMT,
cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) said:

Conor> In article <39902@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, austin@bucsf.bu.edu (Austin
Conor> Ziegler) writes:
>     I don't know, but I just tried it.  One possibility is to strcat a \0
> to the end of h before printf'ing h.  Otherwise, you can get the same
> result from char *h, and not get too many problems.

Conor> You can't scanf(.) into a char *h without first assigning the *h to
Conor> point to a real storage area.

    Oops.  Yes, you do need to assign the *h to point to a real storage
area.  My mistake.  Everybody makes them sometime.  Thanks for the kind
clarification, unlike someone who posted an unnecessary flame.  As I said
earlier, it also might help to make sure that you strcat a '\0' just to
insure that the string is properly defined.  I have had problems like that
before and this solved it.

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