Hi Mike! :-)

 LL>>    EG:   if the first name written to the file is Lawrence
 LL>> Lucier and the second John Henry, then the first record will
 LL>> hold the name "Lawrence Lucier", but the second record will be
 LL>> "John Henry ier".

 MB> This is not an OS/2 problem, just a C problem.  I recommend
 MB> C_ECHO.

    Hmmm.........maybe I am misunderstanding the reason for this echo then.
 Is there a rules posting for this conference (I haven't seen one as of
yet). :-)

 MB> values.  In cases where this is ambiguous ("\x011\x012\x014NET"),
 MB> you need to use the compiler concatenation facility to remove
 MB> the ambiguity.

     Great and thanks for the tip.

 MB> C considers strings to be null-terminated, so copying char arrays
 MB> which are not null-terminated must use memcpy() rather than
 MB> strcpy().

     Will have to check this out a little further then as the strings were
null terminated when I was using the strcpy() function.  At least I believe
they were while being view with LIST in hex mode (or am I seeing something
else there?).

 MB> Your logic is also messed up, since you will do a write after
 MB> getting EOF.  

    Thanks for pointing this out and you are quite right!  I am
getting the last entry read showing up twice in the rewritten file. :-)


 MB>    while(sizeof(struct username_in) ==          fread(&user,
 MB> sizeof(struct username_in), 1, in)) {

    Great!  Thanks for the code and tips Mike.........much appreciated! :-)

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