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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: More on MPW C 3.0 question
Message-ID: <52545@bbn.COM>
Date: 22 Feb 90 18:02:11 GMT
References: <162.25dfe4b3@waikato.ac.nz> <10311@hoptoad.uucp> <1629@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> <2966@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au>
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In article <2966@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> rob@murtoa.UUCP (Robert Wallen) writes:
|In article <1629@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> you write:
|>Oh, by the way; I'm pretty sure that the definition of StringPtr
|>goes smth. like: `typedef Str255 *StringPtr'. Looks familiar? :-)
|>(Haven't looked it up though...)
|
|I hadnt looked it up, but I 'knew' it was wrong so I did and ...
|
|/* from THINK_C 4.0 */
|
|typedef unsigned char Str255[256];
|typedef unsigned char * StringPtr,** StringHandle ;

Well, here is MPW 3.0 or 3.1 (I'm not sure which):

typedef unsigned char
Str255[256],Str63[64],Str31[32],Str27[28],Str15[16],*StringPtr,**StringHandle;

I'm not sure what this proves, though...

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