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From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW Pascal and libraries
Message-ID: <10938@claris.com>
Date: 14 Mar 90 23:52:35 GMT
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chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) writes:

>You certainly are, if the documents that you named are the only ones that 
>you have on the subject.

>You'll need at least Inside Macintosh Volumes I-IV, and volume V if you 
>intend to support Macintosh SE- or II-class machines.  Also, you'll need 
>the Macintosh Technical Notes, which are available via anonymous FTP to 
>apple.com, in pub/dts/mac/tn, I believe.

>Among other things, Inside Macintosh documents NumToString, which takes an 
>INTEGER and a VAR STR255, e.g.:

Not wanting to contradict you, Paul, but NumToString takes a LongInt, not an
Integer.  (PACK 7)

>VAR
>  theErr: INTEGER;
>  tempString: STR255;
>...
>NumToString(theErr, tempString);
>...

>This will convert theErr to a string, which you can then do whatever you 
>wish with.

Obviously, what Paul recommends will work because the Pascal compiler will
extend theErr to a LongInt when it passes it to the Toolbox.

Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
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