Amiga-C (182/223)

From:Jack York
Date:25 Aug 2001 at 04:27:48
Subject:[amiga-c] Re: Saving and reading structs

Hello Allan

On 25-Aug-01, Allan Odgaard wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Jack York wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the suggestion Colin. I normally use the method you describe
>> but in this instance I'm using char * and allocating as needed since the
>> length of the strings being stored vary significantly and I'm not always
>> sure of what the maximum size will be (like a path to a file).
>
> If this is an application (i.e. user saved data) then you may want to look
> into iffparse.library (or dataspace.mui for MUI apps) to save the data in
> a way that won't break your program each time you extend the format :-)

I'll do that since that was one of my concerns. Thanks for mentioning it. :)

Jack



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