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From: "Jason Carney" <jason DOT carney1 AT btinternet DOT com>
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Subject: problem sending data to file
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 02:26:16 +0000 (UTC)
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Does anyone have an explanation for this, its bugging me.  I'm new to c and
using djgpp, maybe there is a simple answer. In main:

 char *x, *p;
 conductor = ch; /*pointers to a char array*/
 long int *len;
 *len = 0;
 p = nletterword(7,len,conductor, charcnt);
 printf(" ");
 x = alpha(p, *len);
 printlist("dump.txt", x, *len);
 free(x);

x is a pointer to a character array, why is printf there?  if i take it out
i get junk at the end of the dump.txt file, when it is present printlist
prints the data pointed to by x to the file without any trouble.  Any ideas
on what i am doing wrong or why this might happen?

thanks for any help.