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From: bazyar@chip (Jawaid Bazyar)
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Subject: Re: GS/OS Strings in Orca/C?  How?
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Date: 15 Jan 91 22:39:55 GMT
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In article <379@generic.UUCP> ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com (Eric Mcgillicuddy) writes:
>Create a structure called GSstring and put the length word in the length.
>
>struct  GSstring {
>        int     length;
>        char    string[255]; /* or whatever buffer size you need */
>};

  I would recommend using the predefined GSString255 type in the 2/orcacdefs/gsos.h
file.  That way other people reading your code will know exactly what it is.


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