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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
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Subject: Re:  compress 4.0 for the amiga
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Date: 18 Nov 90 11:39:35 GMT
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ked01@ccc.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) in <86XJ025203c601@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
writes:

	Though I wouldn't expect it to change, one should really use
	ACTION_SET_DATE, as defined in "libraries/dosextens.h".

True.  But ``ACTION_SET_DATE'' simply did NOT exist in the CBM-supplied header
file back then.  It's easy to forget that when a system was evolving rapidly
as the Amiga, we had to alter the headers ourselves or "#define" the stuff
explicitly to avail oneself of "new" CBM-supplied information (as Jeff did with
his "cp" program).

Such a "problem" is common in the computer industry, and I'm not being critical
,
although I will say I was quite disappointed with DEC when they changed a lot
of the headers during the transition from VMS 4.7 to 5.0 which caused numerous
files to cease being compilable (luckily I anticipated that and retained copies
of the original headers :-)

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]