Help...

James Shankland jas at postgres.uucp
Wed Oct 11 15:55:41 AEST 1989


In article <39953 at bu-cs.BU.EDU> austin at bucsf.bu.edu (Austin Ziegler) writes:
>    Oops.  Yes, you do need to assign the *h to point to a real storage
>area.  My mistake.  Everybody makes them sometime.  Thanks for the kind
>clarification, unlike someone who posted an unnecessary flame.  As I said
>earlier, it also might help to make sure that you strcat a '\0' just to
>insure that the string is properly defined.  I have had problems like that
>before and this solved it.

Good Lord.

Why don't you try slaughtering a goat over your terminal, and letting the
blood drip into the keyboard?   I had problems once, and *that* solved it.

Randomly trying things, in the absence of an understanding of what's
really going on, is no way to solve a computer problem.  Your suggestion
is nonsense:  not because I say so, or because you're an Aries, or anything
like that, but because C is a programming language, not an evil, arbitrary
God that you try to appease with an offering of a strcat().

Was it Mark Twain who said it's not what people don't know that's the
problem, it's all the things they know that are false?

jas



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