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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.3 includes
Message-ID: <2900@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 24 Oct 88 12:31:40 GMT
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In article <3053@amiga.UUCP>, jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:
> The dos does some validation based on size, wrongly, which effects
> moving preferences file from new disks to old, and so on.

I hope this is fixed in a later version, rather than going to something
nonstandard.

> )I should hope so, since it was in the 1.2 Prefs with NO indication that it
> )was unauthorised.

> I hope you didn't assume it was usable by a program other than morerows
> or the equivalent.

Prefs is the equivalent of morerows. All it does is dump your preferences
structure or let you poke values into it from a text file. It's the
nonwindowing equivalent of Preferences.

> Too bad.  I hope you don't count too heavily on its values, which are
> not documented.

I don't care about its values. In fact I just had a look at my code again.
I didn't understand it so I didn't include it.
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		Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
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