Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!easy!lron
From: lron@easy.UUCP (Dwight Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re:    AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion
Message-ID: <lron.10469873@easy.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 90 06:25:14 GMT
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>Since (a) most anything you do other than actually drawing images involves
>passing messages, and (b) you don't know the length of a message for copying
>purposes, this will realisticly mean you'll have to pass messages within a
>single address space using Amiga scheduling.
>
I realize that any program that sets any of the IDCMP flags to report the
mouse position (MOUSEMOVE for example) will really run slow.

As for not being able to find out the message length, isn't there a field -
mn_Length in the message structure that is supposed to define the lenght of
the message structure and it's data?
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