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From: softa@vax.SPD.3Com.Com (Douglas Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Macintosh One-Liners
Message-ID: <3174@3comvax.SPD.3Com.Com>
Date: 13 Oct 89 04:30:48 GMT
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Reply-To: softa@3comvax.UUCP (Douglas Phillips)
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In article <256@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu> pepke@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) writes:
>Programmers' One-Liners
>Directory IDs are longs, not shorts.  Shorts work ALMOST all the time.

At least one networking company returns longs for the directory IDs
and your software will screw up if you use a short.  Lots of people
make this mistake.

Douglas