CC>     char string[6];
CC>     strcpy(string,"12345");
CC>     string[strlen(string)] = '\n';
CC>     outf.write(string, strlen(string));
The bug is here. What's written to outf can be anything starting with
CC>     12345#13#10           (where #13 & #10 are ascii characters)
The strlen function  depends  on  the  terminating  0  that  you  have
overwritten  with  '\n'.  In  your  case, the character following '\n'
happened to be 0.
Thomas
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 þ MM 1.0 #0113 þ Oops... Tried to steal my own tagline!
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