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From: phillip@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Making a Task a Process (was: Message ports in 68000)
Message-ID: <1841@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-May-87 12:49:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1841
Posted: Wed May  6 12:49:55 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 8-May-87 02:09:27 EDT
References: <1253@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
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in article <1253@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>, miner@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Rich A Miner ) says:
> 
> In article <1251@ulowell> page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
>>jmsynge@sqm.dec.com (James M Synge) wrote in article <9663@decwrl.DEC.COM>:
>>>What I want (and am slowly working on) is a library of routines which a TASK
>>>can call which enable it to do all disk related activity just like a PROCESS.
>>
>>...either Flip or AndyF posted to allow a TASK to become a PROCESS,
> 
> Even if this exists, I do not think it is what James is looking for.  A
> process would use AmigaDOS, James wants to have DOS-like functionality 
> from the well behaved world of an EXEC task.  
> 
> So long AmigaDOS, hello EXEC-DOS (written in C), I can dream also!

You could always setup a process that just sits there and does DOS requests you
send him....Maybe even in the form of a device/library... Just make sure
your dealing with a process. If you look at Neils device example (RKM vol.
2, appendix K, mydev.asm, page 15) you will see a way of constructing a segment
list so you can CreateProc() on any code segment in your program. 
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