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- /* `TTalk' - Talking Tasks
- * -programming example using messages and ports
- * (C)1987 Transactor Publishing Inc.
- * From Transactor Magazine, written by Chris Zamara, May 1987
- * ---->>This program may be freely distributed<<----
- *
- * This code shows you how to create and find message ports, and how
- * to send, receive, and reply to messages.
- *
- * This program, `TTalk', lets you create several named DOS windows, and send
- * messages between them. Just give each task its name when you run it
- * from the CLI, e.g. "run TTalk Fred". If you start another task,
- * like "run TTalk Edna", you can send Edna a message from Fred by typing
- * into Fred's window something like, "Edna, you look lovely today!"
- * Edna will receive the message and print it in her window. Any number
- * of these tasks can be started, and any one can talk to any other.
- *
- * How it works: A message port is created and given the name that the user
- * supplies (the name in the window title). To send a message to another task,
- * its port is found with FindPort(), a message is sent to the port with
- * PutMsg(), and a reply is waited for with WaitPort(). Within the message is
- * a pointer to the text that the user wanted to send. The receiving task
- * uses GetMsg() in between waiting for the keypresses to receive the message.
- * All talking tasks also have access to a public port called "Joe's Cafe",
- * where they read a message saying how many talking tasks are running, and
- * update the message when they are started and ended. By talking at Joe"s
- * Cafe, the talking tasks can determine a good place to put their window so
- * that the user doesn't have to always move around overlapping windows. The
- * first task started creates the "Joe's Cafe" port and the first message
- * there, and the last task ended deletes them.
- *
- * compiled with Manx Aztec 3.40a, should work with Lattice as well.
- */
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