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   You should be able to coerce a longint variable into a pointer by using
   code something like this
   
      var   p1: longint;
               p2: ^integer;   { or a pointer to whatever you want to fetch}
	       
	       
	               p1:= parmCopyAddr;   {the  address of parameter RAM
copy}
        p2:= pointer(p1);
	
	 This assumes that the address of the the low-memory copy of
	  the parameter ram is the same on all machines--
	  perhaps not a good assumption.
	  
	  Type coercions of this nature are supported by the MPW and Lisa
pascal 
compilers.   I hope LSP also has them.  otherwise you will have to use
a TRIX variant record with pointer and longint variants.

Type coercions  are just about the only way for Pascal programmers to
live in the Mac environment.   Otherwise we would have to learn C!


Sorry about the previous empty response--I never seem to
read these notes
in the office where I have and editor manual handy
---and who can figure out how to get help without a menu!!

Mark J. Borgerson
Oregon State University,  Computer Science.
(mjbo@orstcs)