wildbill:
You have persisted the same error in your small sample.
Yes, I tried to keep up with you guys, wanting to present the original problem... not what I fixed in between. As I was after feedback of what was wrong.
I now understand that I had to put at least NULL into recordOut[], and what I had first, with strcat() would have worked.
Thank you all for bearing with me... I now get it how to work the posts better.