-=> Quoting Luke Spry to All <=-

 LS> I'm having a big problem with a routine I've written. This routine
 LS> reads a text file into memory, One line at a time. This routine works
 LS> fine for most  files but with some files the computer just goes
 LS> haywire. (One time, the  CMOS was erased, The printer printed, The
 LS> modem clicked, and the floppy disk drive lights turned on !!!).

The symptoms you describe are consistent with an unallocated pointer or
buffer overflow.

 LS> #define BUFLEN 500
 LS> #define MAXLINES 13000
 LS> char* text[MAXLINES];

 LS> char buffer[BUFLEN];

 You have a buffer on the stack, but never check for overflow! This kind
 of thing is good at crashing return addresses.

 LS> /* read character from file into buffer until   or EOF*/

actually until 

 LS> 
 LS> /* if it's a line feed ignore it */

 ignore 

It would be easy to fix the code, but why not just open as "r" and use:-
fgets(buffer, BUFLEN, textFile)


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