From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: sprintf() string length? Date: 18 Oct 1997 00:36:04 GMT Organization: Oxford University, England Lines: 17 Message-ID: <62909k$d40$1@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 16 DOT 19971016132047 DOT 34a756c4 AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se> <628u5q$bki$1 AT news DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: sable.ox.ac.uk To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk On 17 Oct 1997 23:59:54 GMT in comp.os.msdos.djgpp George Foot (mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk) wrote: : The technique isn't to write to a NULL pointer; it's to assign a FILE * to : the filename "NUL" for DOS, or more portably "/dev/nul". Like so: ^ and again: : FILE *fp = fopen ("/dev/nul","wt"); ^ Oops; sorry! That's meant to be "/dev/null", both times. I'm getting carried away with dropping `l's ;). -- George Foot Merton College, Oxford