Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA From: cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: String Beings Message-ID: <8927@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 17:55:27 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8927 Posted: Mon Mar 4 17:55:27 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 04:52:39 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 14 /* > 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 */