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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: NewHandle(0)
Message-ID: <1990Oct22.180000.13980@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 22 Oct 90 18:00:00 GMT
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In article <1990Oct19.204536.4128@engin.umich.edu> mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu writes:
>
>  Whether or not NewHandle(0) works or not is kinda moot, since there's a
>_NewEmptyHandle call which does the same thing as NewHandle(0).
>_NewEmptyHandle has been around since the 128K ROMs and is documented in
>Inside Mac IV.

NewEmptyHandle gives you a pointer to a NULL. NewHandle(0L) gives you a pointer
to a pointer to a zero-length block.
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