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From: goodearl@world.std.com (Robert Goodearl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Gawd I love this shit.  Q about strings in windows
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.045545.3545@world.std.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 04:55:45 GMT
References: <1991Mar3.194444.26873@javelin.es.com> <1991Mar6.004213.2305@sj.ate.slb.com>
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In article <1991Mar6.004213.2305@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
>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, 
>
>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.)
>
As of C 6.0, there are also model independent functions for string manipulation
and file manipulation.  I don't have the manuals here at hand, but I believe
-- 
Bob Goodearl -- goodearl@world.std.com