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From: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Getting a file handle for  a non-cli window
Message-ID: <2388@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 4 May 88 19:32:37 GMT
References: <2370@louie.udel.EDU> <51947@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <51947@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <2370@louie.udel.EDU> rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) writes:
>>1) WHy do i want to do this?
>>   Cause all the io, in lattice and manx, is in terms of file handles.
>Ron has been sending these out for a bit and while I thought the answer
>was fairly clear I suspect it is not. 
   Yup, that is my problem. There are three or four ways to get 
a half-assed solution, most of them very unsatisfying and 
version-dependent. I have looked at the Process, ConUnit, etc. structures
and folks, this is a REAL mess. So far no one has proposed
a general solution that uses standard ADOS/Rom Kernel stuff- it all
involves some pretty bizarre trickery. The worst part is that 
it seems to me you ought to WANT to do this!File Handles are the
standard io mechanism for both lattice and manx now. Ergo, i think,
you want file handles to windows.
   I am looking at a solution that involves using ConMan; i will 
let you know what i find.
ron
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ron (rminnich@udel.edu)