Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Grabbing the mouse port. Message-ID: <8711132239.AA23166@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 17:39:58 EST Article-I.D.: cory.8711132239.AA23166 Posted: Fri Nov 13 17:39:58 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 10:24:48 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 17 > Issue: I *STILL* don't know the official way to close a resource >(there's no CloseResource() call). Someone suggested CloseLibrary(), but >that took the machine out real fast. Yah, that caught me to. Somebody a while back from C-A gave us the answer: There is no CloseResource() because OpenResource() does not allocate anything... simply returns a pointer to a system structure for use in making resource-dependant calls, etc.. > Stupid Idea: Way back when, when the Amiga first came out, I didn't >like the name "AmigaDOS" at all. It wasn't imaginative enough. So I >started calling it AMTOS for a while (Amiga Multi-Tasking Operating System). >What say ye? Sound to much like Atari's TOS. -Matt