So to Michael Baker do I speak these words:


Saturday October 16 1993 22:40, Michael Baker wrote to Steven Pasztor:


 SP>> I've been thinking along those lines too... Conversion wouldn't really
 SP>> be neccisary. Give C routines the string starting at the second
 SP>> character, and pascal routines get the string starting from the first.
 SP>> (size byte) Then all you have to do is call a routine which
 SP>> recalculates the length byte, or replaces the nul depending on wether
 SP>> it was altered by a C or Pascal routine. Then all you've got to do is
 SP>> remember to hand C routines a string starting at the second character
 SP>> instead of the first. That's where the fun starts! :-)
 MB> What you describe here is what I had in mind when I said conversion
 MB> functions.  Something like:

 MB> #include 
 MB> char * P2Cstr(char * str)
 MB> {
 MB>     str[str[0] + 1] = '\0';
 MB>     return &str[1];
 MB> }
 MB> char * C2Pstr(char * str)
 MB> {
 MB>     /* this assumes str is a pointer to Pstr[1]
 MB>        where Pstr is an array of char */
 MB>     char * Pstr = str - 1;
 MB>     Pstr[0] = strlen(str);
 MB>     return Pstr;
 MB> }


Hmmm... I'll make sure I try them out...


 MB> Beware, I have not tested this.

Cool... Thanks.


nevets


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