Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Getting a file handle for a non-cli window Message-ID: <52323@sun.uucp> Date: 6 May 88 20:35:55 GMT References: <2370@louie.udel.EDU> <51947@sun.uucp> <5887@well.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 18 In article <5887@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: ->In article <51947@sun.uucp> FumbleFingers writes: ->>console.device - can be opened with the AmigaDOS Open(2) call and accessed ->> with SendIO(2) and DoIO(2), etc. Normally limited to the ->> WORKBENCH but some tricks can be used (described in AmigaMail) ->> to make it open on a different screen. -> -> Say what, Chuck? I would like to say it was all planned and that I was just checking to see if anyone was reading, unfortunately this particular passage required some "name expansion" on the part of the reader. Yes, I meant OpenDevice() and not Open(). The DoIO and SendIO should have given it away :-) --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.