I am perpetually confused by pointers in C, thus, I avoid them whenever
possible.  (I have the same method of coping with the city bus system -
don't use it)

CCS has a number of string functions, which "return pointers" whatever that
means.  What I'd like to accomplish is this:

I want to concatenate several items into a string, then pass that string to
PRINTF and squirt it out the RS232 port.

One of the strings might be something like  "10:01 AM System ON" or " 7 28
PM System OFF" (note the blinked colon)

Here's a stab at it, prolly fulla bugs:

Char string1[20];
.
.
.

STRCAT(string1, Hours);  // of course, Hours is an INT, not a string, how to
convert to a string?
STRCAT(string1, ':');         // blinky colon
STRCAT(string1, Minutes); // minutes, also still an INT not a string ???
STRCAT(string1, 'PM');  // does this work with a buncha letters?
etc.
Printf(*string1);  // ??????????

Any suggestions are welcome



-- Lawrence Lile
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