Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ncc!alberta!att-ih!homxb!antique!cjp
From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: calling all gurus
Message-ID: <2178@antique.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 88 22:09:38 GMT
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Reply-To: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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Summary: Prefs length

In article <3635@cbmvax.UUCP> eric@cbmvax.UUCP (Eric Cotton) writes:
>    V1.3 sizeof(struct Preferences) = V1.2 sizeof(struct Preferences)
>Likewise the length of system-configuration is unchanged.  The new
>printer stuff was put in the padding bytes at the end of the existing
>Preferences structure.

Oops!  So my idea of checking the length won't work.  So, then what would
happen if someone ran SetPrefs under 1.3 from a 1.2 system-configuration?
Presumably something awful?  Though I suppose the reverse might be innocuous,
setting 1.2 prefs from a 1.3 system-configuration?

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	Charles Poirier   (decvax,ihnp4,attmail)!vax135!cjp

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