Thanks to all for your thoughts. And especially to David for doing a quick test for me.
I apologize if I was too off-topic. This relates, vaguely, to my JCL parser. I was wondering whether to use "memcpy" or "strcpy" for LITERALS. For indeterminate length strings I do use strncpy and snprintf so that I don't get buffer overflows. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
