Re: geos-dev-digest V1 #105

Edward Di Geronimo Jr. (edwdig@davinci.bergen.org)
Wed, 2 Oct 1996 12:34:16 -0400 (EDT)

> The data type "Handle" in all it's incarnations is a word size, things like
> MemHandle are defined off of "Handle" which is defined "word". They're given
> different names so it's easier to read and understand what that data type is
> for.

I knew that, but saying:

word Function(MemHandle *mh);

Is confusing when the docs say it RETURNS a MemHandle. Taking a pointer
to a MemHandle makes me think that it will modify the handle.

> I'm going to have to guess on this, but GEOS handles carriage returns and
> linefeeds like UNIX does. If you want certain characters kept in, you'll
> need to intercept the keyboard for carriage returns and tell the file how to
> display/interpret the key.

GEOS does it like the Mac. But that's not the point. Basically I'm saying
some of the header files were created on Unix and never converted to DOS
text, which is really annoying.

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