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From: mkent@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Marty Kent)
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Subject: "Asynchronous" processing in Allegro Common Lisp?
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Date: 19 May 88 12:47:31 GMT
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   Are there any functions in Allegro that are subject to return before all
their work has actually been completed? For instance, I can imagine the
possibility that a function might queue something to be handled in a
Mac operating system queue, and then return immediately afterward, without
any guarantee that the os had already handled that processing.  

   I'm curious about whether it's possible for (window-close) to return while
the image of the window is still visible on the screen. Does anyone *know*?

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