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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Programming the SCC
Message-ID: <7681@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 16 Jun 89 20:59:54 GMT
References: <2286@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <2286@ur-cc.UUCP> mcli@joker (Maurice Ling) writes:
>I'm a relatively novice Mac Programmer and I would like to send and receive
>simple ascii codes through the SCC port A using THINK's Lightspeed C.
>I've tried many things already and the program below gives me "Pascal
>argument wrong size" error.

Sigh -- would it have been too much trouble to mention what line the
error was on?

>	SerShk flags;
>		stuff = SerHShake (-7,flags);

I take it this was the line?  Structures over four bytes are passed to
the OS by pointer in LightSpeed C.  "stuff = SerHShake(-7, &flags);"
should work.
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