Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!njitgw!mars.njit.edu!gaines From: gaines@mars.njit.edu (Michael E. Gaines) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Questions about FSWrite Message-ID: <2092@njitgw.njit.edu> Date: 7 Jan 91 17:20:12 GMT Sender: news@njitgw.njit.edu Distribution: usa Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology Lines: 8 Hi, I'm using FSWrite in an application and I was wondering about the last parameter 'buffPtr'. Using an example in the Tech Notes, I got the function to write a character string to a file. When I tried writing a floating point number, the whole program crashed. Is there a way to write floating point numbers using the Ptr data type? And also: I used a pointer to a float. Mike