Hi Eljay, that was exactly what was happining with therLine at getLine. Thanks for your help, Andre --- Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Andre, > > Does getLine '\0' terminate the line? > > Does getLine assure that not to overrun the > theLine's buffer size, including the terminator? > (And, if so, how does getLine know how big theLine's > buffer is?) > > The bzero function is rather non-portable, as it is > not a required part of ANSI or System V. (I think > that harkens back to the days of BCPL.) A portable > alternative is memset(ptr, 0x00, 256); instead. > > HTH, > --Eljay > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com