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From: jlee4@lion.uwaterloo.ca (Johnny Lee)
Subject: Re: CtoPstr
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.195336.15562@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <18153@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 90 19:53:36 GMT
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In article <18153@shlump.nac.dec.com> vandevyver@cuvee.enet.dec.com 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
>
>just declare the string as a normal c string, but, make it big enough (at leat
>1 bigger than needed.

Huh?! He doesn't need to change the type of temp. If you've got a C string
in temp, then all you need to do is cast it to a char *
(since I expect the prototype is CtoPStr(char *);, actually
I think it's "char *CtoPStr(char *);" ).

You just need to have enough room for the C string, since the Pascal
string will use the same amount of room as the C string.

Johnny