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From: anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: P-strings in MPW C++
Keywords: C++
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.221457.28382@verity.com>
Date: 20 Feb 91 22:14:57 GMT
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In-Reply-To: mkb@rover.ri.cmu.edu (Mike Blackwell)

strcpy works only on C strings.  It will not work too well on P
strings since it is expecting its string to be null-terminated.  If
you want to copy P strings, you either have to do it by hand, or, if
you have access to MPW 3.2 betas, you can use PLstrcpy which is the P
string equivalent of strcpy.