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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Device driver from device name?
Message-ID: <14764@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 1 Oct 90 16:46:17 GMT
References: <2055@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
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In article <2055@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>>  Also you must handle Startup values that
>>are NOT pointers - for example, SER:, PAR:, PRT: take small integers there.
>
>Hmm... never noticed that, but then I wasn't looking. I'm a little puzzled as
>to what the 'small integers' do.

SER:, PAR: and PRT: are the same handler; the startup value is used
to indicate how you called it.

(See my port-handler source from the 1988 DevCon disks for more details)

		andy
>-larry
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