[ale] Stupid question

[Michael Kachline]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> I though of using one big buffer and storying everything there.  I would
> know the exact locations
> of everything.
> 
> Problem.
> 
> If my int is at 1 and hostname is 2-33 (32 bytes) , how to I access that
> easily.
<snip>

	Chris,

	Use a struct instead of a big (char *) buffer to hold and store
your config settings. Is it important that your config file be ascii only?
Even still, a struct should work, so long that all elements of the struct
are char's (or other structs which are based solely on chars). Use fread()
and fwrite() (or even just read() and write()) to read / write your struct
from config file.

						- Mike
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