Re: [Circle] do_who help

From: Sammy (samedi@clark.net)
Date: 08/15/96


On Wed, 14 Aug 1996 goamkows@kirk.geog.sc.edu wrote:

> i've added an elemental to the character file
> ch->player_specials->saved.prefix
> where *prefix is of type char.
> 
> i want to prepend the prefix to the characters name when someone does
> a who, so in do_who, i put in:
> 
>   char *tmp;
> 
> then later on put in 
>   tmp = strcat((wch->player_specials->saved.prefix), (GET_NAME(wch)));

You're tacking a string onto the end of a character variable.  To put it 
another way, you're adding many characters where there's only room for 1.

Sam
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