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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Having a picture in the background of one's workbench...
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Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 15:50:17 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 20 15:50:17 1987
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In article <8710200513.AA21101@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>
>	Yah! That's telling them! 
>
>:KEVIN MCBRIDE WRITES:
>:I don't see anything inherently *wrong* about the shareware *concept*
>:either.
>
>	Yup.  Don't you love philosophical arguments?
>

Couldn't agree more.  Personally I like the shareware products that
send you source when you send in your money.

(So far the only piece of shareware that grabbed me enough to use/send
money was Dave Wecker's ray trace program...I played with it seriously
for the first time last weekend, and send in my money yesterday :-) )

>BTW Can somebody at C-A provide me with information on the ACTION_INFO packet,
>in respect to both the ACTION_INFO and ACTION_DISK_INFO packets....?? To
>avoid confusion, how bout the specs on both!  I really want to release my
>sample DOS device driver to the net, but don't want to release one that is
>incomplete!

Sure, no prob.
They're basically the same, but ACTION_INFO first checks to see
if the object has an exclusive (ie a write) lock, failing if
it does.  ACTION_DISK_INFO gives you the info, even if
it does have an exclusive lock on it.

The discriminating programmer will note that handlers, which may not
have filesystems may equate the two, or refuse the ACTION_INFO call,
depending on how you want DOS commands to react to you, ie
fail or continue, for those that really need a filesystem, failing
is a nice thing to do :-)

(In my speak: device, the two are exactly the same; that was before
I developed some Lock code for a handler in C)

>
>						-Matt

So, let's see the handler :-)

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