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Article #13557Re: A couple of AmigaDOS questions...
From: Darren New
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 13:50
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 13:50
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In article <20642@watdragon.waterloo.edu> ccplumb@lion.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) writes: >>1) Is there a way to do non-blocking reads from an AmigaDOS >> FileHandle? >Yes. All the DOS functions do is send a packet to the apropriate >handler and wait for it to return. But can you abort the I/O once your other stuff has come back? I.e., if I want to time out on a read of CON:, I can get my process to come back when the timer.device message comes back, but since DOS is not a device I can't AbortIO on the packet, can I? -- Darren
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!new From: new@udel.edu (Darren New) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: A couple of AmigaDOS questions... Message-ID: <10541@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 8 Feb 90 13:50:28 GMT References: <sZh927G00WB_01qmID@andrew.cmu.edu> <20642@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Sender: usenet@udel.EDU Reply-To: new@udel.edu (Darren New) Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 10