Subj : Re: Test To : apam From : slacker Date : Tue Nov 19 2024 05:35 am > Thanks, it should be sorted now.. for some reason linux doesn't like it when you > do : > somestringstream.str().c_str() > I have to do: > std::string somestring = somestringstream.str(); > then somestring.c_str(); Gotta love it when oddities like that pop up! /s I have a few similar unexpected needed explicit assignments before working with some string data in my BBS code as well (It's Perl though, not C++). I ended up putting a comment whenever it happened. As a side note though, I never received (at least not yet) the original message with the 'bad' message id here. --- NE BBS v0.68 (linux; x64) * Origin: NE BBS - nebbs.servehttp.com:9223 (21:3/193) .