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From: phillip@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Phillip Lindsay CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How much of the console.device do I need to close?
Message-ID: <1926@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-May-87 09:55:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 26 09:55:49 1987
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in article <8705250859.AA07959@violet.berkeley.edu>, mwm@VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike  Meyer, My watch has windows) says:
> 
> In article <3665@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> I wrote asking for a way to
> close and reopen a window with a console driver attached without
> having to recreate the IOStdReq & Ports associated with it.
> 
> Leo Schwab suggests:
> 
>>> 	Have you tried zeroing out the IOStdReq before re-using it?
> 
> Nice idea, but it doesn't work. [ ... ]
> 	<mike
Have you tried clearing the MsgPort list header? Or before re-attaching
the message port do a "while( (ULONG) GetMsg(port) ) ;".
-phil
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