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In <1993Jan27.202219.9532@msc.cornell.edu> Mike Thompson writes:
>The following code fragment uses DosDevConfig to get computer model
>information.  This is basically from the toolkit example
>
>   BYTE model,submodel;
>
>   DosDevConfig(&model, DEVINFO_MODEL);
>   DosDevConfig(&submodel, DEVINFO_SUBMODEL);
>
>Under the 2.1b beta, it works fine.  However, under 2.0 w/ SP, it
>crashes with a memory fault.  Changing the BYTE declarations to
>ULONG solves the problem.
>
>What is the correct length for DEVINFO_MODEL and DEVINFO_SUBMODEL
>calls?  Is the 2.1b BYTE length correct, or should I be coding for
>ULONG in both cases.
>
>Anyone know?  What about other DEVINFO parameters?

It believe it was a bug in the thunk for the API which
is fixed in 2.1. It would always be safe to use a ULONG and
only examine the low byte.

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