This seems to be what I was looking for. I will try it out pronto.

Thank you both for the help ;)

Jim



"John Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:47:08PM -0800, Jim Duffy wrote:
> > If my struct is 40 bytes long and the total of all the packed strings is
91,
> > the I need to move 131 bytes into the record.  But since a UInt16 is 2
bytes
> > long, it seems I can only move it in increments of 2.
> >
> > ie: arrayP += 65;
> > This would move it 130 bytes, but I would still be off by one byte..
>
> Don't think of it as a UInt16, and don't access it in the packed record
> via a UInt16 *; think of it as an integer encoded in two bytes in m68k
> format, and access it with something like
>
> unsigned char *packedP = <start of record>;
>
> packedP += 131;
>
> UInt16 first = (packedP[0] << 8) | packedP[1];
>
>     John  "...a different emphasis from Ben's answer :-)"
>
>



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