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From: hawes@dino.ulowell.edu (Bill Hawes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Using Software Interrupts for Menu Handling
Keywords: console packets, intuition menus, interrupts
Message-ID: <1987@dino.ulowell.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 88 23:15:49 GMT
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Reply-To: hawes@dino.ulowell.edu (Bill Hawes)
Organization: University of Lowell Productivity Center, Lowell MA.
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You can abort the fgets() by simply sending a close packet to the console
handler.  The read in progress will terminate and you'll be able to exit
cleanly.  (But be sure to set a flag so you don't try to close down again,
and you'll either have to release the filehandle yourself, or clear the
fh_Type field and close it as a NIL: filehandle).

Let me know how it works.

  -Bill Hawes (ConMan author)

(BTW, closing with a read pending will work with ConMan 1.1, but not prior
versions.  The ED editor is the only software I know that does this)