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From: bkahn@archive.webo.dg.com (Bruce Kahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Q: Orca/C and p2cstr()
Keywords: C, Orca/C
Message-ID: <1020@dg.dg.com>
Date: 4 Oct 90 14:51:25 GMT
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Reply-To: bkahn@archive.webo.dg.com (Bruce Kahn)
Organization: Data General Corporation, Westboro, MA
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  Ive been trying to finalize some changes to a desktop program Im creating and
have found an oddity w/Orca/C (or so I think).  After returning from a call
to SFGetFile(), I check replyPtr->good and if its TRUE, I attempt to open
the file in replyPtr->filename.  Since Im writing in C and replyPtr->filename
is a Pascal string, I tried to use the following (w/SFReplyPtr replyPtr;):

	fp = fopen(p2cstr(replyPtr->filename,"wb"));

but that didnt work.  I then tried:

	fp = fopen(p2cstr(&replyPtr->filename,"wb"));

but that also failed. 
  In my frustration, I dumped the output of p2cstr(replyPtr->filename) and
p2cstr(&replyPtr->filename) to a log file and got basically garbage or random
junk.  I hacked my own p2cstr() for doing an in-place conversion and things
work just fine.  Can anyone tell me why p2cstr didnt work for me or is there
a known bug w/p2cstr??



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