The ff at the bottom of the page is supposed to be if, as in:

if(a > b)
    z = a;
else
    z = b;

Wizard of Oz Database!
Actor              Age   Role 
----------------------------------------
Judy Garland        17   Dorothy 
Ray Bolger          35   Scarecrow 
Bert Lahr           44   Cowardly Lion 
Jack Haley          40   Tin Woodsman 
Frank Morgan        49   The Wizard 
Margaret Hamilton   37   Wicked Witch 

The source code for the modification to the MYSTUFF.C program includes the declaration of the input[] variable, but that variable is not used in the code. This is also true for the source listing on page 309 as well.

Feel free to delete the input[] declaration. Though the program runs with it in there, it's wasteful of resources.

Page 343

The scanf() statement is missing a & before the you.inches variable. It should read:

scanf("%d",&you.inches);

The two printf() statements at the end of the program use the %f placeholder incorrectly. They should read, both in the code and later on toward the end of the page:

printf("You are %.1f centimeters tall.\n",you.centimeters);
printf("Paul is %.1f centimeters tall.\n",paul.centimeters);

Note that the code found here does list the correct expressions.

Page 356

Near the end of the code a capital I appears where a little i should be used instead. At the end of the code, the end of the line just before return(0) should be &temp[i];

Incidentally, many professors recommend that you not use I alone as a variable name for this reason, as well as that I is often confused with the number 1.

Page 359

The 11th line of the code should read:

kilometers = miles*KPM;

Page 365

The sidebar at the bottom of the page, "If you don't need an & to read an array's address in C, why does scanf() still need an & in order to read a string" is incorrect. Disregard it.

Page 366

In the second paragraph, the parenthetical statement is incorrect. You do not need to use an & when specifying string variables in a scanf() function.

Page 367

Line 6 in the code should read:

short int *pa;

Obviously if *pa is to reference the short int array variable they must be of the same type.

Page 407

The sentence in the middle of the page should reference pointer variable c and not p:

This type of construction shouldn't be entirely alien to you. You should recognize that *c is a pointer, which means that c contains a memory address.

Page 408

This sentence is incorrect:

In the case *p++, the ++ operator is higher on the list so it increments memory location p one chunk before the * operator fetches a value.

The *p part of the operator is bound more tightly than the ++, as described (correctly) in Table 4-1.

Page 440

In Figure 6-5, the *(*(array+0)+0) notation above bashful\0 is repeated. It should instead read *(*(array+0)+0), *(*(array+0)+1), *(*(array+0)+2), and so on.

Page 443

In Table 6-1, the last entry is incorrect. The 1 should be replaced with the letter a, like this:

**(array+a)+b is the same as array[a][0]+b which translates as the value of the first item in the array referenced by a, plus the value of b. Note that b is not used to calculate an address, but rather it's added to the value found at the address.

Page 504

Some versions of GCC recognize select() as an existing function — and it is! It's used for "synchronous I/O multiplexing" (whatever that is). So with some compilers you may need to rename the select() function as listed on page 504 in the main() function. I recommend using bselect() instead:

bselect();

On page 505 in LOTTO.H:

void bselect(void);

And in SELECT.C on page 507:

void bselect(void)

You do not need change the name of SELECT.C, only the name of the function select().

Page 536

My editor got a bit overzealous when correcting the PigLatin program's output. Each word is Initial Caps in the output. The output should read:

Something clever
Omthingsay Levercay

If you'd like to have the code keep the same case as the input text, then feel free to make that modification on your own!

Page 587

If you're using Mac OS X, then the stat() function appears to return zero for the file size in the FILEINFO.C program. This is because OS X stores the file size in a double-long int. When you use %d to display the value, it probably shows zero because of the way a double-long is stored in memory. Use %lld instead:

printf("File size is %lld bytes\n",fbuf.st_size);

(Those are lower case L characters, not ones, in the placeholder.)

Page 626

The sample code was copied improperly. It should read index++; not index--; as shown in the middle of the page.

Page 644

The chunk of text needs to be inserted after the while(ch != 'Q') statement. The statement mentioned in the book is while(ch != 0), which is incorrect.

Page 673

Step 2 is different for Windows 2000, which uses a local documents folder as the main personal file storage thingy. So use this command instead:

cd "local documents"

(The double quotes are not optional.)

You'll then see the prompt reflect this:

C:\Local Documents>

Thanks to reader Cort for pointing this out. Also, reader James notes that a My Documents folder can be found, though it's location is:

Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents

I apologize for this confusion; it's been a long time since I had a Windows 2000 computer to play around on.