Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!ziebmef!mcp
From: mcp@ziebmef.uucp (Marc Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: fib_DiskKey semantics
Message-ID: <1989May27.224301.27320@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 28 May 89 02:43:00 GMT
References: <4208@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: mcp@ziebmef.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
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In article <4208@crash.cts.com> wade@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes:
>In reading the PS to this posting I noticed you are thinking of dropping the
>comment field.

Nope!  255 character comments, the limit allowed by the BSTR interface at
the packet level.  Does anyone have any ideas better than truncation for
returning 80 (or 116 if you're willing to risk bugs) character and longer
comments?  One idea I had was to return the proper length byte and just
truncate the data, but I don't think the dos.library is bright enough to
cope with that when it translates to a C string.

In fact, I've added the ability to have a comment on the root directory,
and the only thing that's keeping me from adding lots more features (more
timestamps and things) is the lack of a way to get the new information
to the user.
-- 
	-Colin Plumb