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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re:    AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion
Message-ID: <6852@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 21 Oct 90 12:44:59 GMT
References: <6782@sugar.hackercorp.com> <324@pdxgate.UUCP> <lron.1046785@easy.hiam> <1990Oct17.141554.6314@infonode.ingr.com> <lron.10469034@easy.UUCP> <6825@sugar.hackercorp.com> <lron.10469225@easy.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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In article <lron.10469225@easy.UUCP> lron@easy.UUCP (Dwight Hubbard) writes:
> As for not being able to find out the message length, isn't there a field -
> mn_Length in the message structure that is supposed to define the lenght of
> the message structure and it's data?

Yes, but it's not used consistently. More importantly, what about messages
that contain pointers?
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.