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To: shana@websciences.org
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Subject: Re: question 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Dec 1996 11:14:43 PST."
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Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 16:23:20 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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I'll bet you're passing NULL as one of the arguments to strcat() in
violation of the spec.

					Jordan

> I have a question about strcat. It seems to blow up on us on the freebsd
> system, but runs perfectly fine on a linux machine. It is a message sent
> to the screen that uses strcat. Other messages being sent work fine, but
> when these particular ones are called, they crash it. The only thing I
> can see that is different between these messages is the strcat line. The
> string.h file is on the machine, though is it possible that they are
> different?
> 
> I can send sections of the code if necessary to explain what I mean.
> 
> - Shana