On Wed, 27 Dec 1995, Steve wrote: > I dunno what I did, but a little after changing the alias char from $ to > % i noticed that occasionally when paging you would get bizzar crap at > the end of your page. > > example from typing: wizlist > > DEMI GODS > > CREATOR > Possum Probe RedBaron > > AVATARS > Hate > > IMMORTALS > Kalanor > > *** Press return to continue, q to quit *** > ] > Carried: weight: 0, items: 0; Items in: inventory: 0, eq: 0 > Hunger: -1, Thirst: -1, Drunk: -1, Bladder: 0 > Master is: <none>, Followers are: Probe > > now i did nothing to change showstr_point/head which is what i believe > controls what text you get to page through, are there any ideas on what > could have happened for this to happen? > > > I can't tell you what you did to get this, but at the end of what you are trying to send you are getting the contents of a previously used (by some other character) buffer. I don't know why you'r getting it but a easy hack would be to set the first character in the buffer to /0 (or if you are setting the buffer directly, make sure at the end of the text you want you have a \0 character.) Gary
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