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Article #299Re: problem with Manx's getenv() (and AmigaDOS enviroment variables)
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 1989 02:00
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 1989 02:00
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I think it's long past time thet a replacement for dos.library taht didn't require you to be a 'process' showed up. Here's my ideas: (1) FileHandle has all the stuff you need to indicate a file (pretty much what a file handle currently has) PLUS A MESSAGE PORT. I/O is done via that message port. (2) Add a routine MessagePort(fh) which returns the port, so you can do asynchronous I/O that works well with synchronous I/O. This would have to have a new name. :-<, but there's so much stuff that's dependent on certain brain-damaged aspects of the old dos.library. -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com 'U`
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: problem with Manx's getenv() (and AmigaDOS enviroment variables) Message-ID: <3970@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 2 Jul 89 02:00:46 GMT References: <57878@linus.UUCP> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 17