Hello Bob!

05 Oct 03 14:19, you wrote to me:

 BS>> Oh! I thought so, but I wasn't scure about it.

 BJ> I thought of an additional item.....  Even a packed structure might
 BJ> round up the sizeof() to be a multiple of 4 or 8 bytes....
 BJ> That would mean you would still need to specify the size via another
 BJ> means for reading and/or writing the packed structure....  I haven't
 BJ> tested this....

Yes I see that, if I understand correctly the structure is packed, but
sizeof(STRUCT) returns the size of the "unpacked" structure.

 BJ>> Wes has a define made to allow packing the structures
 BJ>> under GCC but not on other compilers where the packing isn't
 BJ>> needed.

 BS>> It's needed for use with fx. OS/2 or Win32, BTW one of
 BS>> my links told that the user.bbs from a Max/2 can't be
 BS>> readed by Max/Linux

 BJ> Ok....  I haven't tried that yet.  I will have either a conversion
 BJ> routine or that fixed before my BBS transitions from OS/2 to
 BJ> Linux.....

Okay.. I won't be a problem to write a small convertion program.

Regards,
Bo

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