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Subject: String Beings
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Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 17:55:27 EST
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/*
> 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@nbs
*/