Re: <c-string> vs <byte-string>?

To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: <c-string> vs <byte-string>?
From: Scott Ribe <sribe@miqs.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 12:30:04 -0500 (EST)
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Jason Trenouth wrote:
> 
> > So how is it that a list box cannot get its values from a sequence of
> > <c-string> but a <table-control> can? Is there some coercion going on
> > within the <table-control> call to the generator functions? If so, why
> > not the same coercion with the <list-box>?
> 
> Dunno why that is. Perhaps the original <C-string> that you passed to SQL is
> getting trashed in that case?

Nah, I followed it through the debugger and the strings were intact.

> > (BTW, I do need to be using the odbc-ffi library right now instead of
> > the higher-level access.)
> 
> Dunno. Not my speciality.

I just wanted to head off any helpful suggestions to use the
higher-level library ;-)

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<c-string> vs <byte-string>?

From: Scott Ribe <sribe@miqs.com>

Re: <c-string> vs <byte-string>?

From: Jason Trenouth <jason@harlequin.co.uk>