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From: a275@mindlink.UUCP (Travers Naran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaDos Process structure questions
Message-ID: <2027@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 90 00:31:57 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com writes:
> 
>         I advise not doing this if you don't have to.  The main reason is
> that
> you're HIGHLY likely to break in 2.0.  Even Bill Hawes has had a few problems
> with this, and he knows dos really well.  If you must do this, use the
> arp.library, which will work much better, and when the 2.0 update comes out
> arp will probably call the new System() call directly.
> 
> >        What value should pr_ReturnAddr be set to if I want all Exits to
> return
> >back to my calling program?
> 
>         It's not real simple, and anything I tell you is likely to trip you
> up in the future.  Manx fexec makes it even more complicated.  The real
> solution is in 2.0 (System()).
> 
> --
> Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
> {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup
> Common phrase heard at Amiga Devcon '89: "It's in there!"

Well, Jesup, one thing: When the heck am I going to get 2.0 for my Amiga 500!
Until then, I will abstain from ARP because I have a personal bias against it.
Until ARP is distributed WITH Workbench's I will not use Arp.library. :-)
Anyways, when will 2.0 come out for my poor 500? And if I don't have the new
ECS will the screen be in constant interlace? :-)
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Simon Fraser University, Computing Science
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