>> preventry is set to NULL at the top, strdup("") just sets it to NULL again.
>> What am I missing????
>
> Huh? Unless the semantics of C strings have changed underneath me,
> strdup("")
> sets it to *a pointer to* a NULL byte. This is important, since otherwise
> you'll segfault when you try to access strdup..assuming that inputBox doesn't
> treat NULL strings as "".
>
assuming that inputbox really won't read NULL, why not simply do 'preventry =
"";'???