stevef@crash.cts.com (Steve Feinstein) (04/20/88)
Currently, I'm working on a project that would be greatly helped by what I like to think of as a BACKROUND transfer function. What I'd like to do is something like this. I'd like to pretty much like to open a file and read it's contents into a buffer, but I'd like all this to happen while I am doing something else Effectively no have to wait for the I/O to complete before I continue on with whatever else I was doing... Is something like this possible. I'd like to keep the routine's to handle something like this as high level as possible... but anything's plausable at this point. Does anything like this already exist? Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanx