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From: sa1z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sudheer Apte)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: system() --- the C function from hell?
Message-ID: <8YKsTKy00WB7I9b3EN@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 89 22:25:26 GMT
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Organization: Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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In-Reply-To: <1827@uop.edu>

I suspect you've simply forgotten to allocate space for the string str.
(Maybe you've declared it a char * ?) I doubt if system() has anything
to do with it. So you need to define something like

	char str[40];

before you sprintf() into it.

Thanks,
	Sudheer.
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Sudheer Mukund Apte			sa1z@andrew.cmu.edu
Civil Engineering Department,
Carnegie-Mellon University,		...!harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!sa1z
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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