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From: new@udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: A couple of AmigaDOS questions...
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Date: 8 Feb 90 13:50:28 GMT
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In article <20642@watdragon.waterloo.edu> ccplumb@lion.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) writes:
>>1)  Is there a way to do non-blocking reads from an AmigaDOS 
>>    FileHandle?
>Yes.  All the DOS functions do is send a packet to the apropriate
>handler and wait for it to return. 

But can you abort the I/O once your other stuff has come back?  I.e., if
I want to time out on a read of CON:, I can get my process to come back when
the timer.device message comes back, but since DOS is not a device I
can't AbortIO on the packet, can I?    -- Darren