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From: hawes@dino.ulowell.edu (Bill Hawes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Using Software Interrupts for Menu Handling
Message-ID: <1990@dino.ulowell.edu>
Date: 3 Jul 88 21:48:02 GMT
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Reply-To: hawes@dino.ulowell.edu (Bill Hawes)
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With regards to sending DOS packets from interrupt code, this shouldn't
really be a problem as long as the packets are being sent directly to the
handler.  All handlers have to be prepared to receive packets in any order
from many clients (this is a multi-tasking machine, isn't it?).

The only problems I see with sending a CLOSE packet asynchronously is to
make sure that the associated filehandle isn't closed again.  Of course,
this assumes that the user is allowed to close the filehandle at all --
not a nice thing to do with stdin.

  Bill