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Article #13091

Re: Open a console window from Lattice

#13091
From: Bill Seymour
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 03:05
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In article <129114@sun.Eng.Sun.COM: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
:In article <812@jc3b21.UUCP: fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) writes:
:[Excellent description of how to attach a console device to a window deleted]
::     Well, maybe it's not so straightforward after all.  But doing it isn't
::the hard part.  The hard part is finding out how to do it.  THE AMIGA
::REALLY NEEDS BETTER DOCUMENTATION!
:
:I was answering the question of "How do I attach a CON: stream to my
:window." Which is decidedly more difficult. Attaching the console.device
:gives you the ability to send and receive IO requests to the window/keyboard
:but the CON: lets you use the stdio library of C and that can be a feature.
:
:I agree about the need for better documentation, but it's coming. The new
:Hardware manual it pretty whizzy and the new IntuiExecGraphiLib book should
:be an improvement as well.
:
:--Chuck McManis
:uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis   BIX: cmcmanis  ARPAnet: cmcmanis@Eng.Sun.COM
:These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
:"If it didn't have bones in it, it wouldn't be crunchy now would it?!"

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From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Open a console window from Lattice
Message-ID: <1744@agora.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 89 03:05:38 GMT
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