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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: I wanna have a DOSGate!
Message-ID: <8258@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 2 Jun 89 05:27:41 GMT
References: <16317@gryphon.COM>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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in article <16317@gryphon.COM>, ddave@pnet02.cts.com (David Donley) says:
> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>> In article <16031@gryphon.COM> ddave@pnet02.cts.com (David Donley) writes:
>>> >How can I fake normal standard programs into sending their stdio into
>>> >my BBS code?
>>What's wrong with using a PIPE: type of device?
> I can't use a pipe, the BBS must handle many events, it can't just wait for
> data to come from a file.

So use asynchronous I/O, and Wait() on both the pipe-handler and your
events (I assume menupicks and timers and such?). See the latest
AmyTransactor for John Toebes/et. al.'s excellent article on the
subject. Also, Matt Dillon has a library somewhere for doing async
I/O, to go with his libraries to do just about everything else under
the sun :-). 

Someone else suggested multitasking it off as a seperate task, but
that won't work here. If the person doesn't type anything in the past,
say, 5 minutes, the BBS has to assume he's gone to lunch, i.e. we have
to be waiting on a timer as well as on file and modem i/o. Might as
well just do it in the BBS instead of spawning it off. 

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