gistfile1.txt

//Copy all chars not newlines.

char *makebuf; //...

char *newstring = new char [0xFF];

int e = 0;

for(int i = 0; i<strnlen(makebuf, 0xFF); i++){
  if(makebuf[i]=='\n')
   continue;
  newstring[e] = makebuf[i];
  e++;
}

newstring[e] = 0;