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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: CurrentA5 and DDP listeners
Message-ID: <8010@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 15 Jul 89 21:32:59 GMT
References: <12515@netnews.upenn.edu> <7954@hoptoad.uucp> <20453@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <20453@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>I'd like to see a slight change in the interface to protocol handlers to
>address this problem.  The change would be that register A5, instead of
>being defined as "available" when the protocol handler is called, would
>instead be defined as contiaing the value it contained when the protocol
>handler was attached.

I'd like this change to be made retroactively -- unfortunately, as much
sense as the proposed change makes, you'd have to work even harder than
you do now.  You'd have to check the driver version and go to your
A5-saving code if the new one were not installed, skipping it if the
new one were installed.  Most people would just leave out the version
test and go on saving and restoring A5 as at present -- it's easier.
So it's really not worth changing the driver.  It would have been nice
if this had been in the definition from the start, though.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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