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In article <root.658802253@tirith.UUCP> root@tirith.UUCP (Root) writes:
>about those fh_Buffer and related fields - how are they used?".  My best
>answer is that beyond the fh_Task and fh_Arg1 fields, the filesystem is
>not supposed to change anything.  And the application program isn't
>supposed to change anything period.  So I presume they're dead space,
>left over from BCPL and TriPos.  (My money says ed and/or edit use
>them though). 

Close, but not quite; there's another entity around involved in
creating file handles...our friend, the dos.library.  Those fields
are used for the BCPL buffered IO calls.

Which, under 2.0, are now available for use by non-BCPL programs
as well.

Anyway, those fields are private to dos.library and the shell...and
under 2.0 finally can give any program that needs it buffered IO
easily.

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