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Re: Linux Beta Release Now Available

• Posted by Kat <KSMiTH at PELL.NET> Oct 24, 1999
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----- Original Message -----
From: Bernie Ryan <bwryan at PCOM.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: Linux Beta Release Now Available


> On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 21:30:21 -0400, Robert Craig <rds at ATTCANADA.NET>
wrote:
>
> >define_c_var() I need to *dynamically* create a string
> >at run-time containing the name of *any* variable that
>
> Rob
>     HGLOBAL  GlobalAlloc( UINT uflags, DWORD, dwBytes)
>
>     allocates bytes off the heap the flags tell if you want it to be fixed
>     removable,  discardable, etc.
>
>     define_c_var(char *var_name)
>     {
>      return GlobalAlloc( GMEM_FIXED, sizeof(var_name) )
>     }

Or do it in Eu like i did: make a sequence, store the var name in the first
subseq and the contents as the second subseq. To find the var again, look at
each odd-numbered subseq,, the value will be in the next subseq,, and that
value can be an array of sequences too.

Kat