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From:	=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn?= Hansen <viking AT xyz DOT net>
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Date:	Tue, 02 Mar 1999 16:02:15 +0000
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If I have a global pointer to a Ship class I made declared like this:

Ship *scouts=NULL

and then in my main function I do this:

scouts=new Ship

why can't I do this in one of my other functions?

Ship *selected_ship;
selected_ship=scouts[0];

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