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John Lockwood wrote:
> 
> That's because your passing NumConnections as is to the function,
> which expects a pointer to the number.  Try passing @NumConnections.
> You see, if you want to spot pointer errors, ask a C++ programmer; we
> have more experience making them.  ;-)

Thanks for your reply John.  I should have mentioned that the pointer
parameters would be confusing to c and c++ people.  In pascal (or at
least in Delphi, and I think in standard pascal as well) you can declare
a parameter to be a reference, and the compiler will automatically make
it a pointer, so:

procedure double(var x:integer);
begin
  x:=x*2;
end;

Would take a reference to an integer and double it.  The code calling
the procedure would simply say:

  x:=2;
  double(x);
  {x now should be 4}

The Delphi declaration for RasEnumConnections uses this technique to
hide the referencing and dereferencing from the programmer.  I can tell
that this much works correctly because a) it doesn't give an access
violation, and b) the values are set to zero on return.

I'll have a go at this in c and see where it takes me.

Thanks again,
  Vic.