drs@BNL.ARPA (David R. Stampf) (12/06/86)
I've recently started getting involved in the programming game with the atari and have a couple of questions that I haven't seen kicked around on the net. (Maybe there should be a gem.os group, but lacking that ... ) All of the documentation I can find on GEM has a number of "bindings" for the application manager - appl_init supposedly announces the current program to the manager, which is ok, but there are also bindings called appl_read, appl_write, and appl_find which are supposed to allow 2 applications to find each other and communicate. Is this for real, or a possible future extension? The documentation I have also says that appl_init fills in an array of data, one element of which is the most applications that AES can support concurrently. The value I find there is one, leading me to believe that the other appl_xxx functions are wishful thinking. Is there another GEM on the way that will allow more than one application to run? If so, any guesses as to when it will be out? < dave stampf