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From: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Extended vdi query function
Message-ID: <715@stag.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 89 17:59:44 GMT
References: <707@stag.UUCP>
Reply-To: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Organization: Mindtools ST Access Group, Plymouth, MN
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In article <707@stag.UUCP> to_stdnet@stag.UUCP writes:
>From: thelake!steve@stag.UUCP (Steve Yelvington)
>
>
>While testing Ian Lepore's GEMFAST bindings with Sozobon C, I discovered
>that he has implemented the VDI extended device inquiry function
>as vq_extend(h,f,w) instead of vq_extnd(h,f,w).

Mark Williams uses vq_extnd, but the manual even notes that in some
bindings, the routine is called vq_extend. Just one more case of
poorly set up abbrevs (should have been called vq_xtnd of course :-)
to be consistent).

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