From: Kevin Ashley <k DOT ashley AT ulcc DOT ac DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: why is output different each time?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:04:38 +0000
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Joe Ury wrote:
> 
> Why do I get differing output each time. 

...snip...
 in this loop:
>                   do {
>                       x = (char *)memchr(t, '|', len);
>                       if (x)
>                       *x = '\n';
>                   } while (x);

you exit when x is a NULL pointer. You then immediately use x
to do output:

>                       fputs(x,f2);

I'm not saying there aren't other problems, but that certainly
looks like one to me.
 
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