hello I'm trying to put together a guest registry program, and all
that i have left to do is put in a message/mail system where people
can leave small(3line)messages to other people....well i'm trying to
use structures and arrays to do this (i not very familiar with linked
lists)....but for some reason it won't work for me...does any one have
any ideas....this is what i'm trying to do..

structure for mail
struct pmail
{
char a[30];
char b[30];
char c[30];
char d[30];
char e[30];

struct pmail umail[1];
struct mbox ubox;
i use  printf & gets to gather the info and strore it in umail, then
strcpy each of the feilds into ubox.bmail[1](fields)...then save it to
file. then i  fp=fopen("mail.dat","r+b");
           fread(&ubox,sizeof(mbox),1,fp);
then i go through the process of gettting the data for
ubox.bmail[2].(feilds).......then fwrite(&ubox,sizeof(mbox),1,fp);
                                fclose(fp);

then i try to print out the arrays  and  ubox.bmail[1] will have
gibberish....and ubox.bmail[2] will have the data i stored there(well
to a certain extent)....any ideas....when i declare my instance of
mbox....should i give that array an element   eg....mbox ubox[1];

thanks in advance
using Turbo C++ 3.0                    

hello I'm trying to put together a guest registry program, and all
that i have left to do is put in a message/mail system where people
can leave small(3line)messages to other people....well i'm trying to
use structures and arrays to do this (i not very familiar with linked
lists)....but for some reason it won't work for me...does any one have
any ideas....this is what i'm trying to do..

structure for mail
struct pmail
{
char a[30];
char b[30];
char c[30];
char d[30];
char e[30];

struct pmail umail[1];
struct mbox ubox;
i use  printf & gets to gather the info and strore it in umail, then
strcpy each of the feilds into ubox.bmail[1](fields)...then save it to
file. then i  fp=fopen("mail.dat","r+b");
           fread(&ubox,sizeof(mbox),1,fp);
then i go through the process of gettting the data for
ubox.bmail[2].(feilds).......then fwrite(&ubox,sizeof(mbox),1,fp);
                                fclose(fp);

then i try to print out the arrays  and  ubox.bmail[1] will have
gibberish....and ubox.bmail[2] will have the data i stored there(well
to a certain extent)....any ideas....when i declare my instance of
mbox....should i give that array an element   eg....mbox ubox[1];

thanks in advance
using Turbo C++ 3.0                    

Hello - I'm doing something at the moment very similar, so lets go over
this a little.

structure for mail
struct pmail
{
char a[30];
char b[30];
char c[30];
char d[30];
char e[30];

struct pmail umail[1];<<<---- I don't think you can reach into an
eddedded structure like this.  pmail is NOT an array, but a struct.

Try
struct pmail umail;
unmail.bmail[1] = "blah blah blah string.

Even better would be as follows:

struct pmail
{
char a[30];
char b[30];
char c[30];
char d[30];
char e[30];