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From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Proposal for new DOS calls
Message-ID: <cXRn5Ey00UkaITS7RF@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 88 17:39:28 GMT
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peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> The SetXSignal functions are redundant if you do your own packet handling
> and provide your own message ports.

I think the idea is to make the functionality available	*simply*!

Even if the functionality is already there, a standard interface at
the same level as the other dos functions is a good thing.  This
isn't something obscure, after all-- look how useful select (the
more-or-less analogue of SetXSIgnal/Wait) is in BSD.

-Miles