Kurt Kuzba wrote in a message to Anthony Tibbs:

AT>   NULL = buf, NULL = fp???  ;-)
 KK>    Oops....!
 KK>    Sorry about that. I'm taking a class in Visual Basic. :)
 KK>    THAT's why I put NULL ahead of the compared value in
 KK> these    comparison processes, of course. It helps when you
 KK> are, like    myself, easily confused and multi-lingual in
 KK> programming. 

I know what you mean.  When I was learning Pascal (ech), I came back to C++
and had to refer back to the tutorial every now and then..  :-)

Take care,
Anthony

(anthony{at}tibbs.offsbbs.com) 
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