Re: Why does my program change the characters in my shell

From: Anand Agrawal \(agrawala\) (agrawala_at_cisco.com)
Date: 06/26/03 

Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:12:08 +0530

Hi Andy,
  I hope you must be ending each string with NULL characters otherwise
you will face this problem.
  It will be better if you just give part of the code and output.

Anand
"Andrew Falanga" <excalibur@icehouse.net> wrote in message
news:3EFA632F.2FC168CD@icehouse.net...
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to know what the typical reason for this is. I'm debugging a
> program I've written, and to make sure I'm using sscanf( ) and strcpy(
> ). However, when it gets done puting the data on stdout, the program is
> supposed to prompt me for action.
>
> What is displayed is really weird text. No English alphabetic
> characters, just right angled shapes and stuff. What normally alters
> the character set of stdout (don't know if I worded that correctly)?
>
> Andy
>
>
>
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