On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Chuck Carson wrote:
> When you are adding to a buffer before sending it to the
> character, which is the more suitable method?
>
> 1)
>
> sprintf (buf + strlen(buf), "blah.....");
>
> or 2)
>
> sprintf(buf, "%sblah......", buf);
They both work the same, although some compilers (ie Borland) choke on #2,
which is why all instances of #2 were replaced with #1 in the Circle
codebase (pl13 maybe?)
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