specter@disk.uucp (Byron Max Guernsey) (05/25/91)
I need some information on the functions in req.library. If someone could please send me the docs for that library in mail I would probably buy them an amiga 3000. (fingers crossed). I have the library..just don't know how to call it since it was included in some package. Also, what is the status of the req. library? Is it PD? Shareware? I have seen commercial programs that use it and distribute it (for example CED professional). I would like to do the same since it is about the nicest file requester I have seen as of yet. Also, I have a question about rerouting I/O to the serial port. I want to do something similar to the program serial server where the user can open a remote CLI or I can pop up a CLI program that does I/O from the serial port. I would really prefer not to write my own console handler as in serserver. I was looking through our lattice headers at work and noticed that there is a FORKENV structure that has BPTR pointer to std_in and std_out...could this be used to change stdio to the serial device some how? If not I guess I will try to emulate a pipe through ram files (ERG). Finally, one last question, I should just go try this myself instead of asking here, but since I have already entered a message I will include this. I want to share some memory with several tasks. I am a unix programmer by heart and am used to just using shmem calls. What will happen if I start a program, fork() out and then modify a variable in the forked process, will that point to the same location as in the parent? (so essentially they will share those variables? ) Thanks in advanced to all who reply, and to the dude that told me c.s.a.tech was moved :) Byron specter@disk.UUCP ..!ukma!coplex!disk!specter -- Byron 'Maxwell' Guernsey | /// //\\ specter@disk.UUCP or | /// // \\ uunet!ukma!corpane!disk!specter | \\\/// //====\\ "We're not going to give you 500 dimes..." - SNL | \\\/ // \\ m i g a