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From: alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Program to GEMDOS #0 at a specific time?
Message-ID: <697@opal.tubopal.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 89 20:25:48 GMT
References: <152@bdt.UUCP> <0902891449341740@thelake.UUCP>
Reply-To: alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <0902891449341740@thelake.UUCP> stag!thelake!steve@pwcs.stpaul.gov writes:
:In <152@bdt.UUCP> ADAM_TILGHMAN@bdt.UUCP writes...
:
:> Hi there!  I am looking for a program that will execute a GEMDOS #0 command
:> (terminate program) at a specific time... Is there such a beast?  I am not
:> very fluent in M68K assembly, which is what I would assume this type of
:> program would have to be.  The specific use for this program is to
:> drop out of BBS Express! at a certain time to implement a homebrew networking
:> package... Any feedback would be appreciated, but please post replies 
:> directly to the net, since my email address is flaky at best.
:> 
:> Adam Tilghman
:
:GEMdos #0 (Pterm0) terminates the current process. All your program would
:do is kill itself, not the BBS.

  By the way, what about a more consistent 'process' management in one of the
future releases of TOS ? I think it would be nice if resident programs would
kick themselves off the list when issuing Pterm(), not the last one launched.
I had this problem during developing terminal interfaces for a BBS. I had to
keep all the interfaces (called via trap interfaces) resident at the same
time {:-(
  Is it possible for you to allow such a dynamic 'process' management (including
memory release after 'process' termination) under TOS, Atari ?

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