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From: stevef@crash.cts.com (Steve Feinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Backround DISK I/O
Message-ID: <2847@crash.cts.com>
Date: 19 Apr 88 21:27:17 GMT
Organization: Crash TS, San Diego, CA
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Keywords: DISK READ/WRITE DISK I/O INTERRUPT DRIVEN TRANSFER DMA

Currently, I'm working on a project that would be greatly helped
by what I like to think of as a BACKROUND transfer function.  What
I'd like to do is something like this.

I'd like to pretty much like to open a file and read it's contents into
a buffer, but I'd like all this to happen while I am doing something else
Effectively no have to wait for the I/O to complete before I continue on
with whatever else I was doing... Is something like this possible.

I'd like to keep the routine's to handle something like this as high
level as possible... but anything's plausable at this point. 
Does anything like this already exist?  Any help anyone could provide
would be greatly appreciated.  Thanx