From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: Question About DOS programs
Date:	Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:05:22 +0200
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On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Bob Van Ham wrote:

> I have been having a wierd problems with my programs. In windows 95
> and NT the program works perfectly. In DOS however, I can run the
> programs correctly once, without rebooting. Then the next time that I
> run the programs, before rebooting,  they appear to have information
> in them from the previous run.

These are clear signs of using uninitialized memory.  Look for pointers 
which are never initialized to point to a buffer.

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