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From: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: XPR External Protocols Standard (COMMERCIAL)
Message-ID: <12626@well.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jul 89 08:32:32 GMT
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Reply-To: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Organization: The Blue Planet
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+-- papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
|         XPR: External File Transfer Protocols as Amiga Libraries.
|         =========================================================
|  [ ... ] This structure contains a number of things, the
| more obvious one being a pointer to a null terminated string indicating which
| files are to be sent or received and addresses of "call-back" functions inside
| the code of the communications program to access the serial device [ ... ]

Aha!  More call-back functions.  There are several places where these are
going to become important in the future, and every package so far has its
own idea about how they should be done.  There may already be a BIX discussion
about picking a standard way (if not, there should be!).  XPR sounds like
a great thing, but make sure to check out the evolving position on call-backs.
-- 
		Stuart Ferguson		(shf@well.UUCP)
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