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In article <2570@mcrware.UUCP> markm@mcrware.UUCP (Mark Millard) writes:
>
>I have a few questions concerning the usage of Chuck McManis's "raw"
>and "cooked" utilities (recently re-posted).
>
>I was wondering if it is possible to combine the raw mode with
>waiting for signals on stdin's message port.  I modified Chuck's
>testraw program to do the following:

    No, all DOS calls are synchronous.	DOS will never initiate an
    asynchronous packet to a process's message port and thus will never
    set any signal of its own accord.  You must

>What happens is that "Wait" never returns.  Is the signal valid in raw
>mode?	If I replace the "gather and dispatch input" segment with
>	infh = Input();
>	ok = WaitForChar(infh,1000000);

    Use WaitForChar().  Alternately, you can manually construct and send
    a READ request to the console handler and construct a replyport for
    that request, in which case you get the reply when data is ready.  The
    downside to this is that there is no way to *abort* the request... you
    *must* wait for the request to be fullfilled.  So WaitForChar() is the
    only supported way of 'polling' the console.

    Commodore definitely needs some kind of support for asynchronous
    abortable requests.

>Mark Millard
>Microware Systems Corp.
>email: sun!mcrware!markm
>phone: (515)-294-1929

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					-Matt


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