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Not the pad byte, the additional allocation length (i.e. "number of bytes left in the Inquiry data") Jim -----Original Message----- From: Pat LaVarre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 12:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [t13] inaccurate residue explodes how - branching on garbage This message is from the T13 list server. > "Mcgrath, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/06/01 05:52PM > issue ... > a worry about the host interpreting the possible "bad" last byte? > I'm not sure there is a possible issue > (for instance, in INQUIRY ... Aye, we have to reevaluate this command by command. Wrong answer. > issue ... INQUIRY ... the 5th byte > is the number of bytes left in the Inquiry data, > so if that were 0 Eh? Who tells us the pad byte is zero? Me, I have trouble persuading people to make it determinate, much less zero - is that not your experience? Time and again I get told, we should trust the host to avoid looking at it. Pat LaVarre Subscribe/Unsubscribe instructions can be found at www.t13.org. Subscribe/Unsubscribe instructions can be found at www.t13.org.
