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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: ARP: Is there an easy way to get rid of a tracked item?
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Date: 13 Apr 89 15:28:41 GMT
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I'm trying to get a program to be more robust, and so I'm switching
from the standard AllocMem and Open calls to their tracked ARP
look-alikes.  My problem is that I can't see any easy way to UNDO
(FreeMem or Close) the things.   I don't really have any way of getting
at A1, and I'm not working in C so I don't exactly know how to find
that global-vbl that holds the handle to the "last tracked item".  Is
there some other, less anomalous, way to get at the tracked item
handle?  (or otherwise get the filehandle / memory "untracked"?)

More generally, is there some reason that I'm overlooking why ARP
doesn't have, say, an ARPClose that would take a filehandle and do the
right magic to untrack-it and then close it?   As I read the docs, if I
*DO* do a (dos) Close on the filehandle, ARP will be not at all happy
when it eventually library closes (ditto if I FreeMem and ARP-tracked
chunk of memory).  

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