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From: aaron@madnix.UUCP (Aaron Avery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Was: Re: What font does Intuition use?
Message-ID: <384@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 11:03:03 GMT
References: <10236@well.UUCP> <3235@amiga.UUCP> <10289@well.UUCP> <3245@amiga.UUCP> <300@wn2.sci.kun.nl> <249@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: aaron@madnix.UUCP (Aaron Avery)
Organization: ASDG Incorporated
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In article <249@microsoft.UUCP> w-colinp@microsoft.uucp (Colin Plumb) writes:
>The majority of DOS is in the handlers, which an ordinary task can send
>arbitrary packets to.  The only trick lies in finding the handler for the
>apropriate device, which can be done by looking at the di_DevInfo
>list.  Not exactly portable to 1.4, but C-A can get away with nasty
>tricks like this.

You are right that the big stuff is taken care of by the handlers, which are
really little filesystems. The big one which needs all of that Process info
is the standard, ROM-resident filesystem.
Please, please, don't go traversing lists when you don't have to. Try
DeviceProc(), which is no trick, and is more likely to be portable to 1.4
than traversing that list!

Aaron

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Aaron Avery, ASDG Inc.         "A mime is a terrible thing to waste."
                                                             -- Robin Williams
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