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From: bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Qestions
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Date: Fri, 12-Jun-87 19:25:26 EDT
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Question:
    Is there any way to identify the MACHINE that a program is runing on?
(A1000, A500, A2000, A60,000).  Also it's street price, in German marks.

Qestion:
    Is there any way to find the head of the input.device chain without
adding a dummy handler?  I would like to search the chain for a handler
with a specified name, then remove it.

Question:
    There is a graphics library function called TextLength().  This will
count how many pixels a string of characters requires.  Is there a way to
count how many CHARACTERS will fit in a specified number of PIXELS?
(PROPORTIONAL characters, please!)

Question:
    Is there a DOS packet, like GET_BLOCK, that will find and return cached
blocks?  (Without Facc)

Question:
    Is there a packet (other than INHIBIT) that will allow a external file
system parasite to lock a directory block to eliminate the possibility of
examining a newly deleted file?  (Speeddir II replaces the ExNext packet)
(The current ExNext allows deleting files while another process is reading
that directory)

Question:
    Is the combined packet information in the Technical Reference Manual
and Glossy AmigaMail issue complete?  Has a handler example that uses all
the packets expected to be supported been released, and if so, where?

Ideas:
    NewCloseLibrary("Name").  One less mangy pointer to keep track of.
Slightly smaller code.  Blitzfonts in ROM.  "Interest" lock on a file
or directory.  A message would be sent when it changes, and what changed
(deleted file, new file, etc)


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