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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Opening dos.library in C
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Date: 11 Apr 90 16:09:11 GMT
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In <205@mtiame.oz>, jep@mtiame.oz (Jesper Peterson) writes:
>The dos.library is opened for you by the C startup code, so just leap
>straight into your dos calls. Apart from it being a bad idea, I don't know
>if opening a library twice will cause the machine to crash.

You can open a library (in general), as many times as you want. It is done all
the time, in that many programs can be opening the same libraries. Opening it
twice within one program is only wasteful of time. Of course if you do have a
need to open a library twice, for some reason, you should definitely close it
twice, too.

-larry

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