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From: vandevyver@cuvee.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: CtoPstr
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Date: 13 Dec 90 23:20:02 GMT
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In article <HAIRSTON.90Dec12230542@henry.ece.cmu.edu>, hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu (David Hairston) writes...
>[rg2c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Nelson Gasch) writes:]
>[] Could anybody out there please tell me what exactly the function
>[] prototype for CtoPstr looks like? When I call it using
>[]
>[]     CtoPstr (&temp);
>[]
>[] where temp is of type Str255. I get the error "Call does not match
>[] function prototype" or something of that sort.

just declare the string as a normal c string, but, make it big enough (at leat
1 bigger than needed.

And beware : CtoPstr will modify the ORIGINAL string, so you cannot call this
function twice without re-initialisation!

Good luck,

Luc Van de Vyver