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
  _______________________________________________________________________
 |                                                                       |
 |      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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