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On Wed, 2004-Sep-01 14:44:45 -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
>You could squeeze out 256 bytes if you treat 0 as meaning 256 - just like
>the SCSI protocol.

It's too late now but you could support 1020 bytes by counting 4-byte
words instead of bytes.  This doesn't lose anything because the struct
will always be padded to a multiple of 4 or 8 bytes.

-- 
Peter Jeremy