Re: Error in act.wizard.c / *NEWBIE?* Help with whogroup command

From: Niese-Petersen (Tenp@cris.com)
Date: 07/10/96


On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Eduardo Gutierrez de Oliveira wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Niese-Petersen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Here is how I would do it:
> > 
> > ACMD(do_whogroup) {
> >    extern struct descriptor_data *descriptor_list;
> >    struct descriptor_data *d;
> >    struct follow_type *f, *next;
> 
> This seemed nice so I tried it out, and I get two errors with strcpy:
> 
> gcc -c -g -O -Wall -fno-strict-prototypes  act.informative.c
> act.informative.c: In function `do_whogroup':
> act.informative.c:1131: too many arguments to function `strcpy'
> act.informative.c:1137: too many arguments to function `strcpy'
> *** Error code 1
> 
> The lines are:
> 
> 1131:
>        strcpy(buf1, "%s is followed by:\n\r", GET_NAME(d->character));
> 1137:
>          strcpy(buf1, "%s%s", GET_NAME(f->follower), (!next ? "\n\r" : ", "));
> 
> I cannot find anything wrong with these, any ideas?
> 
> Both of them have next:
> 
>           strcat(buf, buf1);
> 

Woops.. My fault. :)  My thoughts were somewhere else [Always happens
when I code outta da blue]  It should ofcoz be sprintf and not strcpy.

Sorry about that folks.

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Erik Niese-Petersen
Aka Quint the Typo God
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