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From: drc@dbase.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New master pointer query.
Message-ID: <232@dbase.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Sep-87 11:16:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: dbase.232
Posted: Mon Sep  7 11:16:09 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Sep-87 00:52:29 EDT
References: <3819@ecsvax.UUCP>
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale Cal.
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Summary: You broke the rules!

In article <3819@ecsvax.UUCP>, wmcb@ecsvax.UUCP (William C. Bauldry) writes:
> 
> 
>  Having little printed resources available now...
> Since addresses have jumped to 32 bits how is the master
> pointer handled (bad pun)? The old format stole the high
> order byte for flags, i.e. handle locked, etc. Could
> some kind soul enlighten me and raise my consciousness
> to the new type ?
> thanks in advance.
> 
> Bill

You address it the same way you did in the past (if you followed Apple's rules)
and call routines for HLock, HUnlock, HGetState, HSetState, HSetRBit, HGetRBit,
etc.  If you want to munge the bits yourself, let your customers beware that
the software you produce will almost surely break soon (and it AIN'T Apple's
fault, but is yours).

Dennis Cohen
Ashton-Tate Glendale Development Center
dBASE Mac Development Team
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