CompuServe Messages

That's what I do, malloc and link. If it's a linear linked list instead of a circular one, make *sure* to set the pointers at each end to NULL and to *check* for NULL *every* time you move along the list. If I emphasized each word in this message it still wouldn't equal the number of times I've crashed my machines by not doing that and by making assumptions. Heres a line or two of code: if ( !(bufptr = (Buffer *) malloc( sizeof( Buffer ) )) ) { printf( "Memory problem\n" ); /* error handling here */ } Next week, we'll do recursion. Mike McCormick