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From: valentin@cbmvax.UUCP (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Shared Libraries
Message-ID: <8257@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 89 22:11:38 GMT
References: <89102003371222@masnet.uucp>
Reply-To: valentin@cbmvax.UUCP (Valentin Pepelea)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <89102003371222@masnet.uucp> dean.gaudet@canremote.uucp (DEAN GAUDET) writes:
>I have a project that I'm working on that involves creating a shared
>library.  I understand how to create one, but I don't know the
>limitations on using one.  (I'm writing it in Lattice C 5.02.)
> 
>In particular:  can I use dos functions?  I ask this because the XPR
>specs use callbacks for dos functions.  I understand why XPR would need
>callbacks for doing Serial I/O, but not why it would need callbacks for
>file i/o.

One limitation you would have to specify is wether your library is callable by
tasks or only by processes. The dos.library is an example of a library only 
callable by processes.

Valentin
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