From: Jon DeMarks Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Terminal Programming Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 11:27:28 -0400 Organization: Tachyeon Systems Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3799DB60.E33AD371@mindspring.com> References: <3798FE1B DOT AE7EEEC AT mindspring DOT com> <3799351D DOT FC119898 AT mindspring DOT com> <7nbebb$3ih$1 AT newssrv DOT otenet DOT gr> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.8a.0e.9d Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 24 Jul 1999 15:27:07 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Pavlos wrote: > > answering my own question here, but it might help somebody out: use: > >if(strcmp(buf,"sd") { sd(); } > >instead of: if(buf=="sd") { sd(); } > > > It should be > if(!strcmp(buf, "sd") {sd();} > because strcmp returns 0 when to strings match. > Pavlos That was my bad there, the line should have been: if(strcmp(buf,"sd")==0) { sd(); }