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From: cks@radio.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: One silly question...
Message-ID: <1025@radio.toronto.edu>
Date: 24 Feb 88 06:44:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: radio.1025
Posted: Wed Feb 24 01:44:51 1988
References: <8802200055.AA00454@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: cks@radio.UUCP (Chris Siebenmann)
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In article <8802200055.AA00454@jade.berkeley.edu> FATQW@USU.BITNET writes:
>Why is APTR defined to be a pointer to a pointer (STRPTR) to UBYTEs???

 I've always assumed that this was a mistake that stayed around for
backwards compatability. Does anyone know for sure?

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