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- From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: System() and pr_ConsoleTask
- Message-ID: <paulk.15ls@terapin.com>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 02:19:47 PST
- Organization: BBS
- Lines: 14
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- Why do people traditionally pass a window filehandle to System() for input and
- NULL for output? There's nothing in the documentation to support this -- what
- is it for?
-
- The other day I found that when I run my program which opens a CON: window and
- then runs a program in it with System(command, SYS_Input, windowhandle,
- SYS_Output, NULL, TAG_DONE) -- woops, make that SystemTags -- running UnZip 4.1
- causes its output to go to the parent CLI window instead of to the window I
- gave it, EVEN THOUGH I had specifically pointed my own pr_ConsoleTask to the
- new window beforehand, and it's supposed to copy that from its parent process.
- The new CLI inside System should be completely unaware of the original CLI
- window.
-
- This is with KS 37.175, SetPatch 38.30
-