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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ORCA/C and returning GSString's...
Message-ID: <35954@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 27 Oct 89 03:12:57 GMT
References: <8910190700.AA14927@trout.nosc.mil>
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In article <8910190700.AA14927@trout.nosc.mil> sysop@pro-generic.cts.com (Matthew Montano) writes:
>Ok you netters..
>
>After a call to the GS/OS DInfo call, I can pull everything I need out and
>place in my own convinient variables, EXCEPT the name of the device.
>
>What way can I take the pointer "DInfoRec.devName" and manage to pull the name
>(stored in GSString32.text) into my own string... in a simple few steps.

I don't know if the ORCA library has a better routine for this, but you could
certainly use the BlockMove routine (in the Memory Manager) to copy the
class-1 string, or you could use a C-library routine like memcpy().  (If
you use BlockMove, be sure to cast the last parameter to a long.)
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