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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strings
Message-ID: <17588@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 89 16:44:00 GMT
References: <10250@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> <8466@chinet.chi.il.us> <558@laic.UUCP>
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In article <558@laic.UUCP> darin@laic.UUCP (Darin Johnson) writes:
>... VMS functions that deal with strings need a string descriptor
>(which works fine in stuff like pascal, because the string type is
>built in).

Pascal does not have a string type.  VMS Pascal has an extension that
provides a string type.  There is a difference.  (Aside to Norman
Diamond: this is not the only case.  DEC managed some of their inter-
language compatibility by extending the languages in question.)
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