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In article <4940001@hpiacla.HP.COM> mlight@hpiacla.HP.COM (Mike Light ) writes:
>>    SinWave: packed array[0..255] of char;
>>    char SinWave[256];

>Almost any pascal-ism has an equivalent in C (but not necessarily
>the other way around).

Except that the useful ones are never that easy.  One of my favorites:
    bitstring: packed array[0..1023] of boolean;
In C you have to do bit-fiddling by hand to get the same effect.

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