Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!puff!avery
From: avery@puff.cs.wisc.edu (Aaron Avery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Idea
Message-ID: <1610@puff.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 88 08:58:09 GMT
References: <8804231647.AA09390@jade.berkeley.edu> <5809@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: avery@puff.WISC.EDU (Aaron Avery)
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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In article <5809@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	I had this same idea about a year ago, and wrote a quickie program to
>discover if it would work.   As it turns out, hitting Ctrl-A-A asserts
>RESET, and RESET resets the 8520's Time-Of-Day clock.  Personally, I think
>it was a mistake on the part of the designer to have done that.
Me, too.

>P.S:	This was how I found out that there's no CloseResource() call in the
>system.  So what am I supposed to do with something that I've
>OpenResource()d?

This has been gone over before. Apparently, all that happens when you call
OpenResource() is that you get back a pointer useful for allocating those
resources. A big difference between a Resource and a Library is that the
Resources don't keep an OpenCount. Because of this, it doesn't care when you're
not using it any more, so you just de-allocate all associated resources, don't
call any CloseResource(), since it doesn't care, and ignore the pointer you got
from OpenResource()!

-- 
Aaron Avery (avery@puff.cs.wisc.edu)
	    ({seismo,caip,allegra,harvard,rutgers,ihnp4}!uwvax!puff!avery)