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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Device driver from device name?
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Date: 1 Oct 90 12:07:39 GMT
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In <14764@cbmvax.commodore.com>, andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes:
>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)

Ahh! You clever devils you! Thanks Andy.

-larry

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