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- From: robinson@elux3.cs.umass.edu (RICHARD ROBINSON)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: A couple of questions
- Message-ID: <55989@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 00:07:27 GMT
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- Reply-To: robinson@elux3.cs.umass.edu (RICHARD ROBINSON)
- Organization: The Realm of Dread
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- Ok, I have a couple of questions that I'd love to find answers to.
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- 1. Can a packet sent to DOS be aborted? I send an ACTION_READ to a console,
- and need to get rid of it when I exit. I just can't ask the user 'please hit
- a key so I can exit.' And since the exit is based on the termination of
- another process, there is no way to not send the packet when I'm about to,
- 'cause I don't know when it is going to exit.
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- Failing that, can I trick the console into thinking I typed something?
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- 2. Is there any way to find out how many characters can be read from
- a console? Transferring characters to and from a pipe one at a time is
- pathetically slow.
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- Thankx in advance for any suggestions.
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- Dread (Richard Robinson, Univ of Mass, Amherst)
- dread@titan.ucc.umass.edu "There is no right, there is only power!"
- robinson@elux3.cs.umass.edu "Kill them, kill them all!"
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