On 25-Jul-97, Daniel Lynes wrote to Wade Carpenter about Re: Me again.. 
HEEEELPPPP!! It's broken!.
 WC>> char msg[88];
 WC>> char fspec[50];
 WC>> fp = fopen("ZS.CFG","wt");
 WC>> fwrite(gets(msg),88,1,fp);
 WC>> fwrite(gets(fspec),50,1,fp);
 DL> As you can clearly see, 'msg' and 'fspec' are never initialized.
Yes they are. He initilizes 'em trough gets().
 DL> fspec[] variables in the working version.  The non-working version was 
 DL> only not initialized, but it did not contain any null bytes at the end 
of 
 DL> string.  When the user presses '' to end the gets() call, a null 
byte 
 DL> not appended to the result, because the null byte was never entered; 
only 
 DL> the newline.
Hey!!! :-)
gets() changes the '\n' entered with a '\0'.
BTW, it is the NUL character, not the NULL byte.
BTW2, you shouldn't use gets(), try fgets() or some C++ class instead.
Javier Kohen  [The_Crusher] http://jkohen.base.org
... I bet the Doctor could *confuse* the Borg.
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