[comp.os.vms] 'Re: JPI$_IMAGNAME Length' and other strings

mhg@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA.UUCP (09/02/87)

>The documentation is wrong.  $GETJPI will return image name
>strings that are longer than 39 characters.

This is true.  I found that you can specify a string address of *any*
length, just as long as the item list element knows how long the target
space is.  I bumped up string lengths to 128 bytes in some cases to
make sure I got the whole string.


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