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From: michael@stb.UUCP (Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Help with SetFunction()
Message-ID: <10004@stb.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 87 02:18:32 GMT
References: <4562@pyr.gatech.EDU> <22035@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: michael@stb.UUCP (Michael)
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In article <22035@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>True, sort of.  Intuition itself does not loop back through the library
>vectors.  Thus any program calling SizeWindow() would trigger, but
>mousing arround would produce no results.

Its not just intuition. Dos library doesn't. None of the BCPL handlers do.
Heck, Translator didn't.

Commodore, please, some of us are starting to do some very interesting stuff
with this. WE NEED *ALL* system software to support the library vectors--
INCLUDING DOS.LIBRARY. I was actually going to re-write dos.library in
C and just throw out all BCPL support. C: can be replaced by ARP and a
shell or two; fexec() would need replacement, but not much else (Who
out there actually looks at the cli structure or other such things
besides the shells?). Unfortunately, things like RAW:, CON:, PRT:, PAR:,
etc. are still in BCPL, using the global vector, making it impossible.

				Michael
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