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I was trying to play with a bit of code which would read from stdin and
then use the parallel.device to output what was read.  I came across an APTR
and can't seem to find out what exactly is an APTR.  For that matter, what's
a BPTR.  I would have to assume that APTR = Amiga Pointer = 32bit pointer?
BPTR = BCPL pointer = long-word aligned pointer.

I want to read the data from stdin into a character buffer and be able to
point the APTR to the start of this buffer and use the data contained
therein to be output to the parallel.device.

I tried something like this:

APTR printbuffer;
char *address;

main()
{
    address = (char *)AllocMem(256, MEMF_FAST);
    if (address == NULL)
        exit(99);

    scanf("%s", address);
    printbuffer = (APTR)address;
/* bunch of parallel.device code from RKM Libs and Devs example parallel.c
   deleted to make this short.*/

    ParallelIO->IOPar.io_Data = (APTR)printbuffer;
    SendIO( ParallelIO );
}

I have tries this where I have made printbuffer = (APTR)"Let the printer type
this" instead of trying to assign/cast the pointer to the beginning of
the character buffer.  It worked.  But the above example with the cast
doesn't.  I figure that I must not understand what an APTR is.

Thanks for any pointers, 8^)

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