String Beings

cottrell at nbs-vms.ARPA cottrell at nbs-vms.ARPA
Tue Mar 5 08:55:27 AEST 1985


/*
> David Herron is right, except for the fact that you are allowed to
> change the contents of the string as long as you don't change the 
> length of it.

You are ALLOWED to change the length of it, but then your program
probably won't work anymore if the length is increased! Incidently,
mktemp(3) uses a template that loox like a filename with 6 trailing X's
to create temporary filenames: mktemp("/tmp/fooXXXXXX"); for example.

"Dust off those rusty strings just one more time"

	jim		cottrell at nbs
*/



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