[sclug] Off topic C question

[Alex Butcher]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Patrick wrote:

> Can anyone see why this character counting program always finds zero 
> characters?  Its based on an example from K&R Chapter 1 which also fails.

[snip]

>        inFile = fopen("motd.xml", "r");

Oh, and unless you're doing this purely to learn C, what's wrong with:

echo "Typed" `wc -l motd.xml | awk '{print $1}'` "lines" && read

?

:-)

Best Regards,
Alex (when all you have is a bash-shaped hammer, all your problems are
       bash-shaped nails...)
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