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From: phillip@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Phillip Lindsay CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BCPL/AmigaDOS
Message-ID: <1984@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 09:41:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1984
Posted: Mon Jun  8 09:41:56 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jun-87 03:33:25 EDT
References: <283@l5comp.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <283@l5comp.UUCP>, scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner) says:
> Summary: MCC isn't the total villian in this drama folks.
> 
> And this doesn't apply to just the "taboo" BCPL support routines built into the
> ROM. MCC had the jump on other things that we only later were let in on. Like
> those nifty packets to make console.handler dance etc.
If you HAD read your Dos Technical Reference Manual you would have seen that
on pages 3-8 to 3-14 packets are described. Specifically on page 3-12 where
I quote part of the first paragraph:
	"This packet can also be sent to a console handler process, in
	which case the Volume field in the ParameterBlock contains the
	window pointer for the window opened on your behalf by the
	console handler."

The newer features of the console handler were documented in the 1.2 release
notes.
-phil
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