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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Who's got the lock?
Message-ID: <9187@oberon.USC.EDU>
Date: 18 May 88 22:09:22 GMT
References: <8805160340.AA23871@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <2004@sugar.UUCP> <2114@amiga.UUCP> <2014@sugar.UUCP>
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Reply-To: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Organization: Felsina Software, Los Angeles, CA
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Posted: Wed May 18 18:09:22 1988

In article <2014@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <2114@amiga.UUCP>, jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:
>> In article <2004@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> )What does the IDCMP message WBENCHMESSAGE do?
>
>> It is system private, subject to change, don't even think about it.
>
>I really wish you guys would strip stuff you didn't want people to know
>about out of the include files, or at least put them inside a #ifdef
>SYSTEM_PRIVATE. This leading people into temptation is positively biblical.
>
>What'll you do if I think about it? Sic the thought police onto me? Afflict
>me with boils? Fry me in a wok?

He'll do the same that is going to happen to IntuitionBase MouseX MouseY
(used by various programs that let you move the mouse to more than 640x400).

In 1.4 those variables won't even be looked at by ANY part of the
system software, so setting them to any value or retrieving the value will
be completely bogus.

It is like "now you see it (1.2), now you don't (1.4"" :-)

-- Marc Papa 'Doc'
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