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From: rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c
Subject: Zortech and extern inits (Re: Zortech is incompatible with TurboC)
Message-ID: <798@m10ux.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 88 14:47:01 GMT
References: <8000029@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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In article <8000029@m.cs.uiuc.edu> rchen@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>Zortech doesn't allow dynamic array initialization.

Is this why my program that has the line:

char far *file_name= "FILE.VMF";

before main() won't compile with my Zortech C++ compiler.
Am I justified in being p*ssed off?  Or am I Missing Something?
(I've never been really comfortable with the near/far thing)





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