Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!waikato.ac.nz!hamish From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Bugs galore! Message-ID: <1991Mar26.115305.3242@waikato.ac.nz> Date: 25 Mar 91 22:53:05 GMT Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Lines: 29 I would just like to express my disappointment in the person who coded the libraries for the Netware C interface that I have got. After carefully reading of the manula and much cursing and swearing in my office I discover that the problem with my program wasn't a bug of mine, gremlins on the ethernet or even a ghost. No. Some busybody had inserted code into the QueryServices routine that went through the reply packets and swapped all the values to lo-hi bytes ordering, including the 48-bit ethernet address which looked liked it was scrambled at random. All I can say is its a good thing they include the source to it, otherwise I might still be blaming little creatures running through the wires selectively destroying bits of information. This brings about a question. If it was done on purpose (and its pretty hard to write about 10 lines of code by accident) why isn't it documented, and why this call and not a few others as well, just for good measure :( All flames for this to /dev/null I think a bug of this magnitude deserves a flame, especially when it isn't covered in the readme on the disk! -- ============================================================================== | Hamish Marson | | Computer Support Person, Computer Science Department | | University of Waikato | |Disclaimer: Anything said in this message is the personal opinion of the | | finger hitting the keyboard & doesn't represent my employers | | opinion in any way. (ie we probably don't agree) | ==============================================================================