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From: mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy)
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Subject: Re: Re: String help!
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Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 10:24:38 EST
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> 

> (a confused hon-hacker writes...) Why would you want to keep a pointer to
> a constant string (or at least a constant length string)??
foo(n)
{
static char str="foobar 0x0000\n";
	hexdigit(n,&str[9]);		/* puts n into string */
	return(str);
}

As to why, imagine an environment without stdio etc- i.e., as is 
happening more frequently, C used to implement intelligent peripheral
device software.

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