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From: peter@sugar.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Transparent Asynchronous I/O.
Message-ID: <589@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 22:20:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.589
Posted: Fri Aug 28 22:20:08 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 20:12:21 EDT
References: <514@sugar.UUCP> <7887@shemp.UCLA.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: UNIX AmigaDOS

In article <7887@shemp.UCLA.EDU>, cc1@CS.UCLA.EDU writes:
> In article <514@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >Why doesn't AmigaDOS support transparent asynchronous writes? If you're
> Please, make it an option, preferably switchable. Being able to stop a program
> by hitting space is a great feature right now.

But you can only stop programs thaw write to a cooked console device that
way. How about a window application that lets you pause any task you like?

> Besides, how do you ever handle
> I/O errors when you don't know what write caused it? (Even unix has this
> problem).

Why wouldn't you know what write caused it?
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