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andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes:
>Close, but not quite; there's another entity around involved in
>creating file handles...our friend, the dos.library.  Those fields
>are used for the BCPL buffered IO calls.

This doesn't quite make sense, unless I make the assumption that an
asynchronous io call is defined as not buffered, or that asynchronous io
isn't possible.

Is it not true that I can create and open a file handle myself using
only DeviceProc() to find the filesystem?

>Which, under 2.0, are now available for use by non-BCPL programs
>as well.

Thank you, whoever is responsible for this!  I can't wait to get 2.0 on
my A1000 so I can have fun with those.  I know several projects that
will benefit greatly.

Hmm, I don't have 2.0 autodocs (yet), how does one request buffering, and
will it break under 1.3?

>Anyway, those fields are private to dos.library and the shell...and
>under 2.0 finally can give any program that needs it buffered IO
>easily.

They should still be documented somewhere - what if I'm writing my own
shell?  This is the thing that annoys me the most about AmigaDOS - the
undocumented magic parts.

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