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From: wutka@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Mark Wutka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A question about DOS devices
Message-ID: <2593@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Sun, 9-Nov-86 15:48:10 EST
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.2593
Posted: Sun Nov  9 15:48:10 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Nov-86 04:49:44 EST
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
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Someone recently posted a sample RAM: device a few weeks ago. This was
very helpful. But I was wondering how you take a device like that and
assign a name to it for DOS (like SER: or RAM:). The reason I was asking
about this is I was wondering how AmigaDOS interacts with these devices.
Does AmigaDOS want to treat the devices like SER: as disks ??  Or does it
request a stream of bytes from each ??  (I.E. does AmigaDOS itself do
the handling of the disk sectors or does it leave that to the device drivers
themselves and just expects a stream of bytes).
The reason I am asking is that I wanted to implement a Pipe device that
maintaned a queue of bytes. That way you might be able to run one process
in the background sending it's output to the PIPE device and then run the
other one and have it take its input from the PIPE device. I seem to recall
people mentioning something about PIPE: already on the NET. Is this in 1.2
or did someone just kludge it with temporary files ?



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