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From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: calling all gurus
Message-ID: <6026@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 88 14:24:18 GMT
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Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) wrote:
>|       fd = open("Devs:System-configuration",O_RDONLY,0);
>|       read(fd,&pref,sizeof(pref)); 
>
>[instead, use] GetPrefs(&pref, sizeof(pref));

These aren't equivalent.  The first actually sets preferences based
on what's in a particular file.  The second just gets the preferences
already in the system (in intuitionbase) and puts it into a structure.

You have to open a disk-based file and use SetPrefs() to set the
preferences from a file.

..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page