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From: bailey%candide@GARGOYLE.UCHICAGO.EDU (Stephen Wilson Bailey)
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Subject: Re: Re2: Clever way to deal with this?
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Date: 14 Feb 90 23:04:37 GMT
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Right, you just ditch the ancillary pointer arithmetic entirely,
using the array.

I don't think you can avoid a pointer entirely, though.  Specifically,

type BufType  = RECORD
   length: CARDINAL;
   text: ARRAY CARDINAL OF CHAR;
  END;

But then:

VAR
  buf: BufType;

This will try to create a huge, static data object.  What you must do instead
is cast a smaller (ALLOCATEd) data object as an object of type BufType, and
the only way to do this is with a pointer, per my original message.

Steph