The following are brief descriptions of the system functions that relate
to the use of Preferences.  See the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual:
Includes and Autodocs for details on each function call.


               Table 13-3: Functions Used with Preferences
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 |                                                                       |
 |      Function                Description                              |
 |=======================================================================|
 |      getprefs()  old 1.3 (v34) function for making a copy of the      |
 |                  Preferences structure                                |
 |      setprefs()  old 1.3 (v34) function for overwriting preferences   |
 |                  with new data                                        |
 |   getdefprefs()  old 1.3 (v34) function for copying default           |
 |                  Preferences from ROM                                 |
 |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
 |   startnotify()  release 2 dos library function for monitoring a      |
 |                  .prefs file for changes                              |
 |     endnotify()  ends notification started with startnotify()         |
 |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
 |      allociff()  iffparse library function that creates an iffhandle  |
 |                  for parsing                                          |
 |  initiffasdos()  initialize the iffhandle as a dos stream             |
 |       OpenIFF()  Initialize an IFFHandle for reading or writing a new |
 |                  stream                                               |
 |     propchunk()  specify a property chunk to store                    |
 |      parseiff()  parse an iff file from the iffhandle stream          |
 |  currentchunk()  returns the top level context of an iff stream       |
 |      findprop()  search for a property chunk previously declared with |
 |                  PropChunk()                                          |
 |      closeiff()  closes an iff context opened with openiff()          |
 |       freeiff()  frees the iffhandle created with allociff()          |
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