Hi Keith,

 KB> This question is about the gethostbyname() TCPIP function call.
 KB> According to the online documentation,
 KB> The return value points to static data that later calls overwrite.

So you copy the returned data instead of continuing to use the returned
pointer. Then you can do with it what you like....
There are more such functions, for instance localtime().
Cya! Agl.

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