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From: mdoerr@uklirb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: gnuplot (is there life after Megamax - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 05:16:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 10 05:16:00 1987
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> and whether they would like the hacked limited version or wait for the
> super++ version.

I definitely want, it but prefer to wait for the full version.

>  sizeof("anystring") returns 4 (the size of the pointer!!!!), not 10.

This (in my opinion) isn't a bug. Any C compiler I know of treats an
ordinary string as a pointer to an array of chars.
Try c = "ABCDEF"[2]; and you'll find (c=='C') to be true.
Use strlen("anystring") instead of sizeof("anystring").

> Since I am also stuck with the lousy Megamax FP library I would like
> to hear when any new version comes out. Despite having paid my money
> for Megamax and sent off my card asking for information (and also a
> letter telling Megamax of other bugs!) I have never heard a word from
> them. Ought I to have waited for MWC? Are they any better?

MWC are much better. I've send my registration card to Chicago and received
their upgrade notice (to V.2.0) prior to the German distributor having
arranged the updates.

> Mike Gerard.

	Michael Doerr