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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
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Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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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`