On 03 Dec 96, Roy McNeill wrote to Paul Wankadia --



 PW> Uh huh...  I've decided to stay with passing the maximum length to the

 RM> One thing still eludes me: why does your function want to know the

 RM> max length, rather than the actual length? The only reason I can



I wanted to know how long the string could possibly be without screwing up

the boundaries and stuff...



 RM> think of is that your function could change the string, making it

 RM> longer, and needs to know when to stop. Is this the case?



It was an input routine that wrote chars straight into the string using

pointers...



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