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Subject: 'Re: JPI$_IMAGNAME Length' and other strings
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Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 14:09:29 EDT
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>The documentation is wrong.  $GETJPI will return image name
>strings that are longer than 39 characters.

This is true.  I found that you can specify a string address of *any*
length, just as long as the item list element knows how long the target
space is.  I bumped up string lengths to 128 bytes in some cases to
make sure I got the whole string.


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