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From: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: amiga data types
Message-ID: <22296@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 10 Jun 91 15:02:53 GMT
References: <68P831w164w@guru.pub.uu.oz.au>
Reply-To: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <68P831w164w@guru.pub.uu.oz.au> terminal@guru.pub.uu.oz.au (bernard) writes:
>Hi there.. 
>Just wondering if anyone could help me with the amiga data types as 
>defined in exec/types.h..
>
>Common problems I am having are scanning a UBYTE[] into UWORD 
>components.. like this
>
>UBYTE dest[21];
>strcpy (dest, "366/359.3");
>sscanf(dest, "%d/%d.%d", &net, &node, &point);
>where net, node and point are UWORD net, node, point;

Are you using long integers (i.e. int = 32 bits)?  If so, try:

	sscanf(dest, "%ld/%ld.%ld", &net, &node, &point);
-- 
Ken Farinsky - CATS - Commodore Business Machines