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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Gawd I love this shit.  Q about strings in windows
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.004213.2305@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 00:42:13 GMT
References: <1991Mar3.194444.26873@javelin.es.com>
Reply-To: poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <1991Mar3.194444.26873@javelin.es.com> lwallace@javelin.es.com (Lynn Wallace) writes:
>I've found that many of the string functions~ don't work in Windows, 
>particularly strcpy.  I haven't been able to find any discussion of string
>manipulation in the dox, particularly the Guide to Programming.  Can anyone
>point me to a good discussion of it, or possibly point out some caveats?
>
>Ya know, what I'm trying to write is really not that complicated.  But whenever
>I try something new (meaning something I simply haven't tried under Windows
>but have done many times in other environments) it takes several days to figure
>out some silly little extra thing I've got to do to make it work.  Assuming
>I'm successful at all and don't end up kludging a way around it.  This is the
>first and last application I will try to write using just the SDK.

There are windows specific versions of most of those types of functions.
Windows deals with LPSTR data types (FAR pointer strings) and you need to use
the functions provided for that purpose. If I remember right, they are pretty
much prepended with an l (lstrcpy, etc.)

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