From: bowman AT montana DOT com (bowman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Converting a string to a char *
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Andrew R. Gillett <arganoid AT fatal-design DOT com> wrote:

>> *b = *s.c_str();
>
>Change this to:
>
>strcpy (b, s.c_str());

b is a pointer to char. s.c_str() returns a pointer to char. So,
b = s.c_str() would work.

Doing a strcpy of some arbitrarily long string to a pointer that was
never initialized will dump core and die, if you are lucky.