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- From: heinz@edohwg.adsp.sub.org (Heinz Wrobel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: A couple of questions
- Message-ID: <heinz.04qp@edohwg.adsp.sub.org>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 19:32:27 GMT
- References: <55989@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1992Nov13.063457.22216@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <56246@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1992Nov16.222301.21722@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Nov16.222301.21722@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson) writes:
- >>>>1. Can a packet sent to DOS be aborted? I send an ACTION_READ to a console,
- >>>>and need to get rid of it when I exit. I just can't ask the user 'please hit
- >>>>a key so I can exit.' And since the exit is based on the termination of
- >>>>another process, there is no way to not send the packet when I'm about to,
- >>>>'cause I don't know when it is going to exit.
-
- If "exit" means "closing the console" then you're fine with just closing
- it. When you close a "CON:" window all pending packets are returned
- automatically. This is probably a side effect but is used even in C=
- examples.
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