-=> Quoting Rajesh Dhawan to Wade Carpenter <=-
 RD> Where dirw is 'char *dirw', I guess ?
yep... right on 
 RD> If you are using 'char *dirw' try 'char dirw[50]' or if you must
 RD> user 'char *' then malloc it properly before passing it to gets(dirw)
 RD> I hope the above suggestions work for you. If they don't then please
 RD> pass on some more lines of your source and someone might be able to
 RD> help you (including me )
Yep.. It worked like a charm!!! Thanks so much for the help, because I never
would have thought of that!!  So, would it generally be better then, to 
use 'char any[50]' instead of using 'char *any'?  Before now, I never knew
any reason to specify the length, other than writing to files...  Well, 
hanks
again.  cya
... Initialize: Carving your initials on a floppy disk.  
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