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From: bdb@cl.cam.ac.uk (Brian Brunswick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Module task terminating
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.153835.21687@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Jun 91 15:38:35 GMT
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Reply-To: bdb@cl.cam.ac.uk (Brian Brunswick)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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>task so that it does not need a whole page to itself. Can a utility
>(filetype FFC) be a wimp task?
I've tried to do this, and it doesn't really work.
The problem is that a utility has state left on the supevisor
stack I believe, and this gets trashed whenever a new application
starts up. So apart from any possible problems beacuse the
Currently Active Object mechanism doesn't expect a utility,
whenever another application is started while the utility is live,
memory gets lost and a wild jump prepares... I eventually reached a partial
solution by having my utility set up a os variable, and doing
a wimp=starttask (which was the object of my exercise) on that variable
from an Obey file.

But this is no good for your purposes :-(

Brian.Brunswick@uk.ac.cam.cl  Disclaimer.  Short sig rules!