Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!rti!sas!walker
From: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: problems writing a handler
Message-ID: <1187@sas.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 89 18:29:46 GMT
References: <678@amy.uucp>
Reply-To: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <678@amy.uucp> hansel%amy@usc.edu (Steve Hansel) writes:
>I am trying to learn how to write a handler.  Currently I am trying to
>compile the NULL: handler that was posted to comp.sources.amiga a few
>months (years?) ago.  Since this program was originally compiled with
>Manx and I am using Lattice 5.02, I had to change some of the #include
>statements.  When I try to send output to my: (my version of null:) I
>meet the Guru instantly.

Why don't you use one of the Software Distillery's handlers?  Source code
to a complete AmigaDOS 1.2-format floppy handler is available on BIX,
from us directly, or probably lots of other places by now.  I have
submitted postings to comp.binaries.amiga and comp.sources.amiga before
which dropped off the face of the earth, so try to get them from
other sources...

Anyway, the SD handlers all compile under Lattice (of course) and are
layered to be mostly portable across devices - for a NULL: handler you
would just delete about 50% of the code, write about 5%, and be done
with it.

--Doug