CD>  void foobar(int type, long additional_info_of_some_type);
 
CD>  If you want to call foobar() with a CString, the cast to the LP(C)STR 
CD>  does a type conversion and the cast to the long is to satisfy the 
CD>  semantics of the function you want to call.
I'm not trying to be a smart-ass believe me; what I assume of that
function is that if "type" is a particular value, you'll cast the long
back into a far pointer and dereferrence the pointer in order to get at
the string.  Correct?
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