DC> ...declarations
DC> char *malloc();
DC> char *ps[30];
DC>  
  
DC> ...At start of program I initialize the array to be safe..

It seems as though you've forgotten a couple of things in your
"malloc" statement.  malloc() returns a pointer to void and needs to be
cast.  You haven't declared a name for malloc() to allocate.  You
haven't told malloc() how MUCH you want to allocate.  Perhaps what you
wanted to do was something like:

char * ps = (char *)malloc(30);

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