Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!lll-lcc!well!ewhac
From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Getting a file handle for  a non-cli window
Message-ID: <5887@well.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 23:28:55 GMT
References: <2370@louie.udel.EDU> <51947@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Slow-Witted Weapons Experts, Ltd.
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In article <51947@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>console.device - can be opened with the AmigaDOS Open(2) call and accessed
>	         with SendIO(2) and DoIO(2), etc. Normally limited to the
>		 WORKBENCH but some tricks can be used (described in AmigaMail)
>		 to make it open on a different screen.

	Say what, Chuck?

	CON: is the DOS domain goodie, and console.device is the Exec domain
goodie.  CON: is opened with Open() and console.device is opened with
OpenDevice().

	The console.device can be attached to any window on any screen.
This is explained quite well in the AutoDocs.

	Or am I missing some underlying Deep Meaning you were trying to
impart?

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