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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: variable number of strings passed t
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Date: 26 Oct 88 14:49:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Oct 26 09:49:00 1988


>And so on.  Use <varargs.h> or <stdarg.h>
>(current practice and ANSI-C-draft practise respectively); they are the
>*only* portable way to do this.
Oh come on now. How about mallocing up enough space to put an array
of pointers to the strings in memory and passing a pointer to that array?
That is portable and avoids varargs or stdarg.