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Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 18:00:45 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: typedef'ing a 24-bit integer
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Miguel Guerreiro wrote:
> Perhaps I didn't make myself clear, I only want it to take three bytes
> when I save it to disk ( maybe packed ) not while I'm working with it...

So just use `int', and write it like:

putc(x);
putc(x<<8);
putc(x<<16);

or something similar.
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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com