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From: u2zj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Stanton Loh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: CtoPstr
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.111334.1618@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 90 15:13:33 GMT
References: <MbNepFS00Uh_M4CG51@andrew.cmu.edu>
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In article <MbNepFS00Uh_M4CG51@andrew.cmu.edu>,
rg2c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Nelson Gasch) writes:
> This is probably really stupid, but I can't figure out what I'm doing
> wrong. It's getting sort of frustrating.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanx
> --> Rob

The prototype is:

char *CtoPstr(char *);

but the compiler complains because Str255 is a pointer to unsigned char.

-Stanton