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From: pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IPC: Messages (again)
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Date: 21 Mar 88 10:02:44 GMT
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Summary: Cool it, Matt...

In article <8803151957.AA11010@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:

>         You are out of your mind.  OF COURSE THE MESSAGES HAVE TO BE REPLIED!
> [..... etc. and so forth.  And on and on, laying down the law...]

Your hysterics are getting tiresome, Matt.  Why is it that other people can
disagree without blasting the other guy, but your messages always seem to
be written with smoke coming out of your ears?  This is supposed to be a
discussion, not a courtroom.  It would help too if you showed signs of
actually having read -- and understood -- the various notions that people
have put forward, but it looks more as if you latch on to a bit out of
every third sentence and attach your own meaning to it.  Case in point:

>         You are making that assumption that you have thought of everything
> anyone will ever want to do.  That is a bad assumption to make.

Now go back and actually read what I (and other people) have been saying.
I'm not going to repeat it all yet again.

> .........
And I really can't be bothered to go round in circles again on the other
points, except this:

>         [.......]   How do you intend to atomically set the message
>         type to NT_NOSERVER when ReplyMsg() automatically sticks an
>         NT_REPLYMSG in the field???????

Yes you're right, but if you had been following the topic you would know
that I asked that specific question at the very beginning, assuming that
the field was set, and was informed by someone else very firmly that it was
not.  I accepted that without checking it, and you could have corrected me
without the histrionics.  It makes little difference though -- who says we
have to use ReplyMsg for such conditions?



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