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December 1998, Week 3

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Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
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Stan Sieler writes:
> CSEQ tells us the "proper" default values for omitted item numbers is
> $b70f (0xb70f) ... *NOT* 0.
>
> Sheesh.  Chalk another annoying needless quirk for HPVOLINFO.

OK, HP, what were you possibly thinking when you chose 0xb70f (!!!) as the
omitted default?

> Hmmm...ok, let's use a non-blank, as shown in the CSEQ comments....
> I changed your sprintf to use "-" instead of " " to surround the
> volume set name.  (I'd have used "%", but that's a pain in C)

Oops.  Guilty as charged here.  The Intrinsics manual says "The delimiter
must be printable".  I chose blanks because that delimiter was perfectly
acceptable on another intrinsic where the first character of the parameter
is expected to also be the trailing delimiter.

Let's hear it for HP consistency.  ;-)
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