Why some code for certain events declared to be static???

[Chris Seberino <seberino spawar navy mil>]

GTK+ Tutorial has scribble.c code that has
many subroutines that are tied to events.

Many of these are static.  Please explain
what static gives you in C.

Sincerely,

Chris

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