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In article <26700068@inmet> bhyde@inmet.UUCP writes:

> ...Second about this handle stuff?  I usually fack a handle in
> my global data area.  It never occured to me that somebody who
> uses the handle might decide that it was really a handle and
> start treating it as such.  What a mess!  This means that every
> place that the documentation says a things a handle I'll actually
> have to allocate a real Handle from the memory manager and then
> stuff it full of things to make it have the values I want in it.
> If it is code then I'll have either make it a real code resource
> or I'll have to "stuff a jsr into it."  (What a hack!)

It may seem a hack, but what about those routines that add to an
existing data structure?  They rely upon being able to make the area
pointed to by a handle bigger!  You want them to make your carefully
faked data array bigger for you?   :-)
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