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From: boutell@freezer.it.udel.edu (Tom Boutell)
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Subject: Re: Maze generation
Keywords: how-to maze generate program wanted
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Date: 15 Dec 90 21:07:15 GMT
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Believe it or not I *can* explain that behavior on the part of maze.
The reason is that the code uses the space in which the user's input
is stored by scanf to store a string without allocating it!! Really sick
and clever stuff, but not universally portable. (Works OK here.)


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