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From: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon)
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Subject: Re: Declaring externally-defined structures
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Date: 30 May 91 01:48:37 GMT
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	What you want is a global variable.  To make a variable global, 
declare it as normal, but do so outside of the functions.  Most people
put them at the top, after the #includes and #defines.  Example:

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#include <stdio.h>

#define MAX 100

int gack; /* global! */

main()
{
...
...
}
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	Any function in the above file can use the global variable "gack". 


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John Gordon
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