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Sb: #3445-#c-array initialization
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: Bruce MacKenzie 71725,376 (X)

Bruce,

Yes, you're right on in what I am trying to do. I had considered data modules
before, but with the richness of C it seemed that there had to a simpler way.
After all,

    char *foo="this is text"

does NOT force "this is a text" to the data area. All I need to do is to
substitute integer values for the string. But how?

BTW, I want to use this data to intialize some GET/PUT buffers. I guess another
way to do it would be to have the data in a file and send that to the buffers,
but having it all in the program makes things nice and clean. I got your datgen
file. I've not had a change to digest it yet, but it seems quite useful. You do
mention somewhere that data modules should be treated as ROM. Hmmm? I recall in
"The Rainbow OS9 ...." that they used data modules to store variable data.
Also, they can be used for interprocess communication. Don't really see why
not. Comments?

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