[net.micro.amiga] File Handles and Signals.

dillon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (02/01/86)

	Well, I finally got my manual's from commodore.... whew, Nearly 7 Weeks
(or more).  The documentation is excellent, congratulations Amiga and 
Commodore.

	Questions: 
		
	I went through the device driver's to get access to the serial port.
	Eventually, I came up with a signal number that I could use (1 << n)
	in a Wait() routine.

	However, I also have a file-handle from an Open("Raw:... ), from which
	I'm getting keyboard info.  

	I can use Wait() for the serial port, WaitForChar() for the file
	handle.
	
*	My question is, how can I wait for both at the same time?  e.g. there
	is no signal number for the file-handle.

*	The returned file-handle from an Open() is an odd address.  Was this
	done on purpose to prevent people from indirecting through it?  Or do
	I have to do a transformation on it?

*	What does the Memory-Overlay bit do?? it isn't documented (or I can't find
	any documentation on it)

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	The dos RAW: device is excellently done.  The dos SER: device is lousy..
	completely useless.  

					-Matt