In <6fh0f55c4lt4scbntma0r9udums736r...@4ax.com>, on 11/03/2009
at 05:06 PM, Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> said:
>The API is defined as 100 byte maximum
There is no such formal API. The limitations of the R/I and C/I were just
that, limitations. They were never a contract to the programmer.
>New programs wishing to use a
>larger plist can be coded to use a new way to get to the data.
If it were only a case of new programs then I would agree that the
existing format is obsolete. However, existing programs, including those
from IBM, support the existing interface for parms longer than 100.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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