Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!rayssd!jxc
From: jxc@rayssd.RAY.COM (Jeffrey J. Clesius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: one last word on my simple device problem
Message-ID: <1742@rayssd.RAY.COM>
Date: 29 Dec 87 17:15:20 GMT
References: <897@louie.udel.EDU> <181@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Sender: jxc@rayssd.RAY.COM (Jeffrey J. Clesius @ Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI)
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Keywords: Silly, disregard
Summary: What would work on an old Mac

In article <181@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> beowulf!lunge!jesup@steinmetz.UUCP writes:
>
>	Aha!  I'll assume you are just using DoIO, no WaitIO's (as in
>the previous message - I'd assumed you were using SendIO or BeginIO).
>Note that DoIO always tries Quick IO first, then normal IO if it fails.
>SendIO never uses QUICK, and BeginIO allows you to play.  See the discussion
>Quick io in the RKM under IO.
> ...
>	( Essentially, this is what DoIO does:
>		Set IOF_QUICK bit.
>		Do a BeginIO
>		check to see if quick bit still set, if so, return.
>		else do a SendIO, then a WaitIO, then return.
>	)

Why not use EieIO?

( With a quick bit here, and a quick bit there, here a bit, there a bit... )

Sorry...  I couldn't resist.
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