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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
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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 :-)


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