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From: duncant@mbunix.mitre.org (Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Open a console window from Lattice
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Date: 12 Dec 89 22:59:40 GMT
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I've been following this thread with some interest, hoping to find
the answer to the following question:

Given a window, how can I get a file pointer (of type FILE *) which
I can then use in fprintf(), fscanf()(), and so on, to do I/O with
the console handler actually handling writing text to the window and reading 
the junk the user types into the window.

I realize that this may not have been the original question, but it's a 
question which I am sure several people would like the answer to.  By
the way, I already know that I can do something like:

   wind_file = fopen( "NEWCON:0/0/100/100/MyWindow", "w+" );

which will open a window and give me a file pointer.  What I'd
really like to do is get a file pointer which can be used to do IO with a window
which already exists.

Duncan Thomson