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To:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: (fixed patch) "%E" formatting for the humans
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Date:	Mon, 03 May 1999 21:06:48 -0500
From:	Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU>

Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de> writes:
> 
> FormatMessage has an option, to allocate the needed buffer itself
> (FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER or similar). This buffer should
> then be freed with LocalFree() after usage.
> Would this be an alternative?
> 

That was what I had done at first, only to discover that it doesn't fit
into the model used by small_vsprintf etc al very well (passed in pre
allocated buffer, arbitrary number of formatting directives, etc make
it impossible to inject a newly allocated buffer within). I'd welcome 
any suggestions of course.

Regards,
Mumit

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