Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/18/64 11:42

Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:17:22 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>
>>And this will fail if the ship date spans a 1024 byte block.
>
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> Which it doesn't. I looked at the page. In this case, it doesn't
> matter, but I am reluctant to use fscanf("%s\n") as it may result
> in buffer overrun. It's a habit acquired by programming in C.
>

It doesn't *currently*. This is exactly the type of thinking which will
come back to bite you eventually. Suddenly it fails - "But I didn't
change anything...". And you didn't. But someone else did.

And trying to find the problem two years (or even two months) from now
could be *very* difficult.

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