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to: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 (X)
from: James Jones 76257,562
date: 1990-12-08 13:37:45
subject: #8639-#`C` problem

#: 8643 S3/Languages
    08-Dec-90  13:37:45
Sb: #8639-#'C' problem
Fm: James Jones 76257,562
To: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 (X)

memcpy(), unlike strcpy(), doesn't null-terminate the destination.  strcat()
wants pointers as arguments, so you needed strcat(whatever, ""), but...strcat
itself looks for a null terminator to know where to start copying, so you can't
use it to force null termination.  (Sort of a catch-NUL. :-)

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