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Subject: Re: Can I equate arrays?
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Date: 23 Mar 91 14:59:16 GMT
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From article <kbujuWG00WB_8N7kYt@andrew.cmu.edu>, by jp48+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan Pace):
> 
>    I have an instance of arrays that I want to store in a temporary instance
> while I play around with the working data set.  Can I do either of the
> following in standard C (I have to eventually run on a SUN workstation):

In C, if you just give the name of an array, that means "the address
of the array".  So array1 = array2 won't do what you want.

You can do a block copy with BlockMove(), but won't help you when
you get to the Sun.  There you'll probably want bcopy(), or memcpy().

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Paul DuBois
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