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- From: feck@informatik.uni-kl.de (Christoph Feck IRZ)
- Subject: Re: Boopsi questions
- Message-ID: <1994Feb27.061616@informatik.uni-kl.de>
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- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 05:16:16 GMT
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- In article <S37732V.94Feb26102011@beta.hut.fi>, s37732v@snakemail.hut.fi (Markus Juhani Aalto) writes:
- > In article <2km384$lsd@zetar.cs.pdx.edu> idr@cs.pdx.edu (Dancing Fool of Epsilon) writes:
- > > sounded like you were making a BOOPSI class for file handling? I don't
- > > think this is such a good idea. All BOOPSI dispatchers must be able to
- > > execute in Intuition's context, this means as a TASK, not a process.
- >
- > BOOPSI doesn't mean that it should be able to execute in Intuition's
- > context. For example OM_NEW, OM_SET, OM_GET, OM_UPDATE etc.. work
- > just fine in you process context. GM_**** methods are used from
- > intuition directly so these aren't working in your process context.
- >
- > Also file handling can be made directly with Packets which is the
- > best way to do it properly anyhow. And packets can be used from
- > tasks.
-
- the file.stream subclass (of streamclass) uses packets
- (for asynchronous I/O). It still calls DOS to open/close
- files though.
-
- 3k// Christoph Feck, TowerSystems
- \X/ Amiga - Intuition inside.
-