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From: jellson@stsusa.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: window/event/conman questions
Message-ID: <6377@stsusa.com>
Date: 7 Dec 89 11:08:31 GMT
References: <29800002@inmet> <4688@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Siemens Transmission Systems, Albuquerque, NM
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In article <4688@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In article <29800002@inmet> rich@inmet.inmet.com writes:
>> I am writing a programming environment (a smalltalk that is derived from 
>> Tim Budd's Little Smalltalk, but faster) for Ami.
> 
> Cool.
Seconded.

[useful looking code fragments deleted]

>
>> Finally, I am using ConMan's feature of opening a window as a file handle
>> by calling Open() with file name "con:wXXXX" where XXXX is the address of
>> the opened window.
> 
> Please don't do this. There are ways of attaching a console device to a window,
> and I'm sure that someone will come up with one for you. If you depend on
> ConMan, you'll be unable to run your program on any system that doesn't have
> it. For something like Smalltalk, that'd be too bad.
> -- 

Ok, so don't depend on ConMan, but if it is there please support it. I really
miss ConMans line editing and history functions in the XLISP environment.

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John Ellson  ellson@ontap.stsusa.com