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- From: jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong)
- Subject: User IDs (the type field)
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- Organization: Rice University
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 10:05:36 GMT
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- In chapter 12 of the Toolbox Reference (volume 1), the following is said
- about user IDs:
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- User IDs are made up of three fields--type, auxID, and mainID--contained
- in a word parameterâ•”The value of the mainID field is assigned by the User
- ID Manager and will always be a nonzero value. You must provide the value
- for the type field, which has fixed assignments as shown in figure 12-7.
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- What does the statement "you must provide the value for the type field"
- mean? Does this apply to all user IDs, including those returned from MMStartUp,
- or does it refer to the idTag parameter to the GetNewID procedure in the
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- Jim Wong (jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu)
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