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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: NewHandle(0L) ?
Message-ID: <1990Oct19.195024.15200@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 90 19:50:24 GMT
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In article <1990Oct19.151254.8197@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> scott@scotty (Scott Howard) writes:
>
>Why call a handle up before you need to? If you 
>pre-allocate it with 0L, you lose the advantage of being
>able to tuck it into an unobtrusive corner of your application's
>heap. At any rate, It ought to work as long as you don't try
>disposing it.

I use it when trying to load data from a disk file when there is no length
information preceding the data.  Disposing it works fine-- it's a perfectly
valid handle, with a master pointer and everything.

You can still tuck it into an unobtrusive corner of the heap with MoveHHi at
a later time (after you have SetHandleSize'd it)

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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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