Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: dos.library ACTION_SET_DATE question. Message-ID: <20441@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 8 Apr 91 02:46:25 GMT References: Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 26 In article ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) writes: >It appears that I get a lock on the file "ruru". So now, I >send an ACTION_SET_DATE packet with Arg1 being the lock I obtained from >the ACTION_LOCATE_OBJECT packet, and Arg2 being a pointer to a buffer >containing nulls (I want to set the date to "the beginning of time"). The format of the packet is: dp_Arg1: unused dp_arg2: lock dp_Arg3: name dp_Arg4: CPTR to datestamp >What gives? What the heck am I doing wrong? Why isn't dos.library in the >RKMs? Why is the AmigaDOS manual (2nd Ed) so clear? :-) Comment/setdate/setprotect have "unusual" argument setups. Dos isn't in the RKMs because of contract written by someone long-gone from commodore that gives Bantam exclusive rights to all Dos documentation. -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion. Thus spake the Master Ninjei: "To program a million-line operating system is easy, to change a man's temperament is more difficult." (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)