From:	crispen AT hiwaay DOT net (Bob Crispen)
Subject:	Re: Calling cygwin.dll functions from Visual Basic
20 Dec 1996 16:21:18 -0800 :
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Ted Lemon <mellon AT fugue DOT com> sez:

>Make sure that the string into which you are copying has enough space.
>Also, I found that I needed to declare an alias with the munged WINAPI
>name (in your case, this would be strcpy AT 8).   Also, you probably
>*don't* want to use the return value of strcpy, at least not as a
>string.

Sorry, mate, but giving it an alias (I presume you meant in
the VB Declare statement) of strcpy AT 8 didn't do anything but
change the error message to "function not found."

And unless I badly misread the manual, you're supposed to
pass both BASIC strings (each 4 bytes long, btw) as ByVal
which points to the lovely null-terminated string part of
those data structures.

And we had it return both an int and a string (which we
didn't use further).  Same result.

So, any other ideas?

I've picked up the Gnu sources to the <string[s].h> stuff and
they look pretty self-contained, so I may take a whack at
stripping the weirdness out of them and just compiling them with
a Visual C++ compiler.  Sigh.
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Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen
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