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From: FATQW@USU.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Getting uneasy about cooked devices...
Message-ID: <8802020038.AA26008@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 88 23:34:00 GMT
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I'm sorta getting uneasy about cooked devices.

Imagine this.  Console cooked device (CON:).  Serial port cooked device (AUX:).
Parallel port cooked device.  Modem cooked device.  Screen cooked device :-)
Anyway, you get the idea.
Can't we do somethin' EXPANDABLE?

Solution.

Create a COOK: device.  When you open it, it uses the parameter as the name
of another device to open and cook.  For example, opening the "COOK:RAW:"
device would be exactly the same as opening the "CON:" device.  Opening
the "COOK:SER:" device would be the same as opening the "AUX:" device, which
may or may not be present in every system.  Opening the "COOK:PAR:" device
would cook the parallel port.  This way you could cook anything you want.
(Nice to have an oven in your computer :-)

                                Bryan Ford (FATQW@USU.BITNET)

P.S.  Yeah, the logo's gone.  Using a different terminal program.