C programming hint

[Chris Torek]

> I found a way to initialize an array of characters without using a loop.
> Here is the method I used:
>
> 	char blanks[SIZE];	/* declare array of SIZE elements */
> 	blanks[0] = ' ';	/* initialize 1st element */
> 	strncpy(blanks + 1, blanks, SIZE - 1);	/* initialize entire array */

Beware, that won't work on Vax systems that use movc3 for string copies
(probably Sys VR2V2.2.2.2... [sorry :-)] and 4.3 both).
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