Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!decvax!spray!anson From: anson@spray.CalComp.COM (Ed Anson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Ptrs, Handles, & Stuff Message-ID: <2605@spray.CalComp.COM> Date: 23 Feb 89 15:57:43 GMT References: <1152@taux01.UUCP> Reply-To: anson@spray.UUCP (Ed Anson) Distribution: usa Organization: CalComp, A Lockheed Company, Hudson, NH, USA Lines: 14 In article <1152@taux01.UUCP> cyosta%taux01@nsc.COM ( Yossie Silverman ) writes: > The question is: When I do a _NewHandle or _NewPtr, is >the result (1) locked (2) unpurgable ? About NewHandle, Inside Macintosh II-32 says: "The new block will be unlocked and unpurgeable." > The book says very little about the defaults, infact, the promotion >IM says NOTHING about the defaults... That's why you should use the current documentation. The promotion edition is incomplete, and has even more errors than the final version. -- ===================================================================== Ed Anson, Calcomp Display Products Division, Hudson NH 03051 (603) 885-8712, anson@elrond.CalComp.COM