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From: randy@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Console device question
Message-ID: <156@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Apr-86 10:28:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 28 10:28:47 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 2-May-86 21:27:07 EDT
References: <2563@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: randy@cbmvax.UUCP (Randy Weiner)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <2563@decwrl.DEC.COM> shives@glory.DEC (Mark Shives) writes:
>
>... In the Rom Kernal Manual in the chapter on the Console Device 
>there is a program called "cons.c".  I have verified that I have typed in
>the program correctly...
>
>	The symptoms seem to be that it skips commands... 
>
>				Mark Shives
>dec-rhea!dec-glory!shives
>DECNET- GLORY::SHIVES

Mark,

   I have typed and run the program without any problems. Therefore, I
can offer the following suggestions:

   First, which compiler are you using. My guesss is that it is the Manx
Aztec-C. Note that this compiler defaults an 'int' to 16-bits. The Amiga
libraries expect a 32-bit int., for example: the io_length field
of the device request block. The quick solution is to use the +L (??)
option that forces all ints to 32-bits. The suggested solution (refer
to the Aztec manual) is to cast/coerce the value being passed (to
ConWrite, amoung others) as long.

  If you are using the Lattice compiler, then there is a high probability 
that a typo exists. Did you copy the entire example from cons.c, or did
you make use of previous code fragments to build the working example?
I am grasping at straws here since I have no reason to think there
is anything wrong with the example, as I have said, I have a working
copy (and it is the same as the printed example).

   Let me know how you make out.

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