From:	chris_mears AT softhome DOT net (Chris Mears)
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Subject:	Re: URGENT!!! Please (A Little Long)
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On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:56:59 GMT, kezman AT nOsPaMbigfoot DOT com (Kieran
Farrell) wrote:

[snip]

>
>The above wont work, cause whatever pointer is assigned to fp is lost
>when the OpenFile procedure is finished.
>
>OK I'll try showing my quick fix again, hopefully it makes more sense
>and should compile this time.
>
>int main(void)
>{
>    FILE *fp;
>    
>    fp = OpenFile(fp);
>    return;
>}
>
>FILE *OpenFile(FILE *fp)
>{
>    fp = fopen('a:\\yadayad.txt", "wb");
>    return fp;
>}
>

Why pass 'fp' as a parameter if you are going to change it in the
first line of the function?

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