I'd prefer something like this that I've attached. The move over the
years has been away from artificial limits...
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Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! /
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Index: banner.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr2/ncvs/src/usr.bin/banner/banner.c,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 banner.c
--- banner.c 1999/04/19 04:05:25 1.6
+++ banner.c 1999/11/24 05:41:35
@@ -1018,7 +1018,7 @@
};
char line[DWIDTH];
-char message[MAXMSG];
+char *message;
char print[DWIDTH];
int debug, i, j, linen, max, nchars, pc, term, trace, x, y;
int width = DWIDTH; /* -w option: scrunch letters to 80 columns */
@@ -1058,14 +1058,24 @@
/* Have now read in the data. Next get the message to be printed. */
if (*argv) {
- strcpy(message, *argv);
+ message = strdup(*argv);
+ if (message == NULL)
+ err(1, "strdup");
while (*++argv) {
- strcat(message, " ");
- strcat(message, *argv);
+ char *omessage;
+
+ omessage = message;
+ asprintf(&message, "%s %s", message, *argv);
+ if (message == NULL)
+ err(1, "asprintf");
+ free(omessage);
}
nchars = strlen(message);
} else {
fprintf(stderr,"Message: ");
+ message = malloc(MAXMSG);
+ if (message == NULL)
+ err(1, "malloc");
(void)fgets(message, sizeof(message), stdin);
nchars = strlen(message);
message[nchars--] = '\0'; /* get rid of newline */
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