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From: bartonr@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Non-Communist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Children and message ports
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Date: 3 Dec 90 04:13:47 GMT
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peter@dbaccess.com (Peter A. Castro) writes:
>    Yes, you did.  The CreateProc() function returns a Process structure
>    pointer.  You must extract the MsgPort out of this structure and use
>    it in your call : PutMsg(procid->pr_MsgPort,msg).

  Nope, as documented in The AmigaDOS Manual, CreateProc() returns a process
identifier, which is DOS-speak for a MsgPort pointer.  And pr_MsgPort is a
structure, not a pointer as required by PutMsg().