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> From: degoble AT gtech
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 05:53:40 GMT
> 
> What is wrong with this code;

This is what's wrong:

> char *text, *temp;
> 
>   strcpy(text, title);

The variable `text' is a pointer that you didn't initialize, so it
points to a random location in memory.  When you copy text to that
location, you are committing a crime punishable by crash.