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Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task

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   Christopher Bazley <cs99cjb@gmail.com> wrote:
> The deleted_next_node() function manipulates the offset_to_next_item
> directly by subtracting 1 from it! This implies that the values
> returned by OS_GBPB in R4 must increase monotonically, otherwise
> subtraction would make no sense.

I believe it does for FSs like ADFS. One of the reasons I had to fix
up various DrWimp apps such as Labella and Calibre was that they made
just that assumption, and it broke nastily on Fat32FS, on which the
values of offset returned are very definitely not incrementing by 1
for each object.

-- 
Chris Johnson

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OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Christopher Bazley <cs99cjb@gmail.com> - 2012-03-06 14:33 -0800
  Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task jeff <jeffrey.a.doggett@gmail.com> - 2012-03-07 00:02 -0800
    Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-08 22:33 +0000
      Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Christopher Bazley <cs99cjb@gmail.com> - 2012-03-10 10:22 -0800
        Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-10 21:04 +0000
          Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-10 23:11 +0100
            Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-11 09:10 +0000
              Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-03-11 10:41 +0000
              Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-03-11 11:06 +0000
              Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-11 17:56 +0100
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Gavin Wraith <gavin@wra1th.plus.com> - 2012-03-11 18:25 +0000
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-12 00:33 +0100
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Gavin Wraith <gavin@wra1th.plus.com> - 2012-03-12 11:56 +0000
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-12 16:44 +0100
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2012-03-12 20:57 +0000
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-12 22:26 +0100
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-13 17:50 +0100
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-13 10:15 -0700
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-13 07:34 +0000
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-14 06:00 +0100
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Christopher Bazley <cs99cjb@gmail.com> - 2012-03-15 02:40 -0700
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-15 14:55 +0100
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2012-03-15 14:46 +0000
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-15 18:44 +0100
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2012-03-15 19:44 +0000
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2012-03-15 20:36 +0000
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-03-15 20:26 +0000
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-16 06:12 +0100
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-15 20:34 +0000
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2012-03-15 21:04 +0000
                Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-16 00:17 +0000
        Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-03-10 23:58 +0000
          Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-03-11 10:43 +0000
          Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task jeff <jeffrey.a.doggett@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 03:03 -0700
            Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-03-12 10:44 +0000
            Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-13 07:44 +0000
              Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task jeff <jeffrey.a.doggett@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 03:06 -0700
  Re: OS_GBPB 12 in a Wimp task druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2012-03-07 10:08 +0000

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