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Re: Macintosh One-Liners

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From: Douglas Phillips
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1989 04:30
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In article <256@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu> pepke@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) writes:
>Programmers' One-Liners
>Directory IDs are longs, not shorts.  Shorts work ALMOST all the time.

At least one networking company returns longs for the directory IDs
and your software will screw up if you use a short.  Lots of people
make this mistake.

Douglas
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From: softa@vax.SPD.3Com.Com (Douglas Phillips)
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Subject: Re: Macintosh One-Liners
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Date: 13 Oct 89 04:30:48 GMT
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