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From: waggoner@dtg.nsc.com (Mark Waggoner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: window/event/conman questions
Message-ID: <377@icebox.nsc.com>
Date: 8 Dec 89 19:37:09 GMT
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In article <4699@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I thought ConMan was a straight drop in for CON:, just like NEWCON: is. If
>that's the case, why wouldn't you have access to it from Xlisp?

The method he was using to connect ConMan to the window is supported
only by ConMan, not by CON: or NEWCON:.  It is much easier than the
methods you would need to use to connect a console handler to a window.
It would mean, however, that you would HAVE to be using ConMan.



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