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From: steve@polyof.UUCP (A2 Steve Weiss)
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Subject: Bug in Chat Version 6.0
Message-ID: <156@polyof.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 19:00:40 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 30 19:00:40 1985
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Here is a quick fix for an annoying problem a friend and I found:

In module send.c, the declaration of 'shrtname' is inadequate.
It tends to scribble onto fname[].  Seems the strcpy() blows
away past shrtname[4].  Making shrtname be shrtname[6] seems to
fix the problem.

Remember, strcpy ALWAYS copies the '\0', so the
	strcpy(shrtname, &(shrtname[3]));
probably copies 3 bytes 99% of the time.  I do not think anyone
has 4 character ttynames anymore, so if shrtname originally is "tty01"
(Keep in mind, it is not necessarily '\0' terminated!), then
the strcpy() will muck it up to shrtname[5] (at least, depending on
where a '\0' happens to be AFTER shrtname[4]!)