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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Importing calls to access Windows registry
Date: 1999/05/07
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In article <37331c0b.1253787@news.pacbell.net>,
  tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote:
> As a comment, I'd also suggest you can save yourself a lot of
> typing and probably a lot of grief by using the package
> Interfaces.C, instead of defining your own "windows_integer_type"
> etc and using your own code to append nulls to Ada Strings and
> using System.Address.

Generally that may be the case, but in his case it was *ported* code, so it
will not save him any typing to change. However, it may indeed save him
grief.

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