Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!usc!apple!keith From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: console I/O under MPW C Message-ID: <43379@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 27 Jul 90 07:19:22 GMT References: <90@ <1234600048@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <111@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> <9446@goofy.Apple.COM> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 33 In article <9446@goofy.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes: >In article <111@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> mneerach@c.inf.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) writes: >> >>I think I have seen a file called WriteInWindow somewhere on a CD. This >>was said to allow Applications to use console I/O. I haven't tested it >>yet, though. > >This is a unit I did for MacApp originally. It certainly comes with MacApp >(which is probably the lastest version), but I don't know if some version is >also available on a CD. The allows for both input and output, and various >options for the number of lines to save, redirecting output to a file, etc. So _you_ wrote that! I always wondered. A long time ago, someone in DTS extracted that from MacApp 1.x and made it a standalone unit. I think it might have been Jim Friedlander, as a lot of his sample code used it. That unit is now on the quarterly Developer CD (Phil & Daves, A Disk Called Wanda, Disky Business), along with the warning that we won't support it, we don't know how it works, and you better not ship an application with it because we don't guarantee its working. Basically, it's for testing and playing only. However, all those nasty warnings aren't to say that it's not a rubust unit. After all, Larry wrote it, so it must be solid. It's just that it's never been formally tested outside of MacApp. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keith Rollin --- Apple Computer, Inc. --- Developer Technical Support INTERNET: keith@apple.com UUCP: {decwrl, hoptoad, nsc, sun, amdahl}!apple!keith "Argue for your Apple, and sure enough, it's yours" - Keith Rollin, Contusions