On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Michael J. Ghormley wrote:

> James Cameron wrote:
>
> > It's gets(), surely?  If it is the ANSI C function, it is defined as
> > using getc() until it receives an end of line marker.  Are you sending
> > characters followed by a carriage return?
>
> I have no knowledge of this flavor of C, but shouldn't he be sending a
> NULL (0x00)  value to terminate an ASCII string?  Could that be the
> problem?

gets will insert the NUL (not NULL) itself as per ANSI C, as soon as it
sees an end of line character (usually '\n'). It is possible that it sees
a '\r' instead. On a PC, pressing the rightmost Enter key should do this
(?).

Peter