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In <22034@usc.edu>, news@usc.edu (USENET News) writes:
>From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
>Path: pollux.usc.edu!papa
>
>Only one comment, and then I'm on to another subject.

Fine by me. I've pretty much said my piece, except to comemnt on this.

>  The following is
>quoted verbatim from an article in Amigamail (which all developers get as
>part of the developer's fee), by Peter Cherna of Commodore:
>
>"Even in the latest release of the system, V1.3, mutual exclusion of gadgets 
>has not been implemented. In fact, if Commodore-Amiga ever does provide
>system support for the mutual exclusion of gadgets, the method used may well
>be different from the method outlined in the Intuition Reference Manual". 
>
>So, you've been warned. If you read that as "I can use MutualExclude for
>my own purposes", be my guest.  I can bet, your program will likely break.

No, I wouldn't read it that way. I would read it as being a warning to not use
the field. Unfortunately, my 'complete set' of Amigamails goes up to #14 (lead
article, 'The Amiga Virus', by Bill Koester). I have not received further
issues as yet.  The article in question is not included.  This brings up the
following comments:

1. Not everyone who programs, gets Amigamail, or is even aware of it.
2. It's a little late in the game to say it might be changed in 1.4

-larry

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