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Inside Macintosh: Networking With Open Transport / Part 2 - Open Transport Reference

Chapter 30 - AppleTalk Reference / AppleTalk Addressing Reference

AppleTalk Utility Functions /

OTExtractNBPType

Extracts the type part of an NBP entity structure.

C INTERFACE

void OTExtractNBPType(const NBPEntity* entity, 
                     char* typeVal);

C++ INTERFACE

None. C++ applications use the C interface to this function.

PARAMETERS

entity

A pointer to the NBP entity structure from which you wish to extract the type.

typeVal

A pointer to the string buffer in which to store the type portion of an NBP name string that you wish to extract from the
NBP entity.

DISCUSSION

The OTExtractNBPType function extracts the type part of an NBP name from the specified NBP entity structure and stores it into the string buffer specified by the type parameter.

To store the name, type, and zone parts of an NBP name in an NBP entity structure, use the OTSetNBPName function, the OTSetNBPType function, and the OTSetNBPZone function, respectively.

To extract the name and zone parts of an NBP name in an NBP entity structure, use the OTExtractNBPName function and the OTExtractNBPZone function, respectively.

Note

If the name parameter passed to the function OTSetNBPName contains a backslash, the result in the name parameter passed to the function OTExtractNBPName will not be the same, because the backslash is stripped by the function OTSetNBPName and is not re-added by the function OTExtractNBPName.

SEE ALSO

"The NBP Address Structure".