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From: baird2@lincoln.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Bugs galore!
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.184848.1@lincoln.ac.nz>
Date: 26 Mar 91 08:26:54 GMT
References: <1991Mar26.115305.3242@waikato.ac.nz>
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In article <1991Mar26.115305.3242@waikato.ac.nz>, hamish@waikato.ac.nz writes:
> 
> 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. 
> 
There are other examples of documentation/programming mismatches in the
C Interface. The GetObjectDiskRestrictions procedure does not return
0x40000000 when no quota is set - as stated in the manual. It specifically
checks for this value and if found sets it to zero!

Overall, Novell have done a sloppy job on the C Interface.

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