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 If it were only a case of new programs then I would agree that the existing format is obsolete.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. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html