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From: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: cli <-> console.device query
Message-ID: <2048@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 18:54:14 EST
Article-I.D.: ulowell.2048
Posted: Tue Nov 24 18:54:14 1987
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Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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G35@DHDURZ1.BITNET wrote:
>I tried to 'RUN' my shell-program and to 'transmit' the command line to the
>CLI process.

RUNning a program is the same as having it in the foreground, except
that you don't have a console window and you don't have a CLI struct.
Granted, they can be pretty major differences...

> Browsing through memory I found a buffer where the console.device
>(that's what I suppose) stores keyboard entries. This buffer can be
>found with
>buffer=(((struct FileHandle*)BADDR(CliProcess->pr_CIS))->fh_Type)+136;

Holy private data space, Batman!

[I suspect it is CON: and not console.device you are looking at]

>The buffer holds 256 characters and is followed by an LONG pointer,
>pointing at the last byte entered.

Around October '85 Eric Lavitsky made the same conclusion.  I don't
know if he worked it out as well as you did, however.

>Does anyone have an INCLUDE - File for that buffer ?

Don't ever expect to see one, as you are looking into somebody's
private buffer.

>I'm shure that this is a totally wrong approach to the problem.

That's a real good bet. :-)  Expect this to break in the next KS/WB rev.
I admire your hack, though.  Maybe you should talk to Jim Goodnow :-)

..Bob
-- 
Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@ulowell.edu  ulowell!page
"I've never liked reality all that much, but I haven't found a
better solution."		--Dave Haynie, Commodore-Amiga