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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Subject: Re: How much of the console.device do I need to close?
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Date: Fri, 22-May-87 22:08:40 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 22 22:08:40 1987
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[ First time 'inews' ever bit me.  Fascinating. ]

In article <3665@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@violet.berkeley.edu(Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) writes:
+ 
+ I need to twiddle a window in ways that require closing and re-opening
+ it.  [ ... ]
+ 
+ It would appear that I can create the ports and IOStdReq structures once,
+ and then do the OpenDevice every time I open the window.  [ ... ]
+ This works fine, except
+ that I keep getting spurious messages which cause the last character I
+ typed before the open/close to appear in the input stream.  [ ... ]
+ 
+ Creating the ports & IOStdReq every time, and shutting them down to
+ close the window, works like a charm. But I shouldn't have to do all
+ that.
+ 
	Have you tried zeroing out the IOStdReq before re-using it?

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