Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!umd5!brl-adm!adm!Russell_Green.WBST129@Xerox.COM From: Russell_Green.WBST129@Xerox.COM Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: VMS pointer problems continue. Message-ID: <12738@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: 31 Mar 88 15:37:00 GMT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 9 If you change your declaration for b to: char *b = "Arf!"; you should have no further problems. You apparently wanted a pointer to a character string, you were returning the whole string, not a pointer to it. Some compilers are VERY picky! Good luck, Russ