Re: [ql-users] Pointer read
...But QPTR is only a BASIC toolkit to access the IOP WM calls. This only would have made QPTR able to use events under SMSQ v2.71+ No, QPTR is just the basic interface to the PE, so it can't do more than the PE itself... Sorry if I'm being pedantic, but I said QPTR (the file) is the BASIC toolkit: I assume that the update to it was simply to change the RPTR BASIC Proc to now include (rather than ignore) the event bits (ie, as a terminating parameter to, and a return parameter from, the BASIC parameter list). The underlying PTR_GEN trap IOP.RPTR would need to support the previously unused term bits (which must have been ignored by Qptr until the update - as is/are bits 23 to 8 which are used by WMAN only (see QPTR manual Update page 2))). Regards, Dave.
RE: [ql-users] Pointer read
-Original Message- From: Wolfgang Lenerz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 February 2001 08:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Pointer read On 24 Feb 2001, at 12:23, Dave Westbury wrote: Chicken and egg situation: If latest QDOS PTR_GEN (v1.71?) did return IOP.RPTR for an Event (bits 24-31 set in event vector), how would you send one? You need SMS.SEVT which is only in SMSQ 2.71+ (the only way to prevent ERR.NC return?). I think you might mean latest QPTR was updated to deal with events. But QPTR is only a BASIC toolkit to access the IOP WM calls. This only would have made QPTR able to use events under SMSQ v2.71+ No, QPTR is just the basic interface to the PE, so it can't do more than the PE itself... Actually I thought the PE / OS had been upgraded, but you're right, I just checked the documentation and events don't work on QDOS, you need SMSQ for that. To get around that, FiFi uises a timeout on machines that don't support events. Wolfgang Maybe this is where Richard Zidlicky's signal handling extension http://www.itimpi.freeserve.co.uk/qdosdown.htm#SIGEXT would come in. IIRC it's not just for C programs. Jon.
Re: [ql-users] Pointer read
On 24 Feb 2001, at 12:23, Dave Westbury wrote: Chicken and egg situation: If latest QDOS PTR_GEN (v1.71?) did return IOP.RPTR for an Event (bits 24-31 set in event vector), how would you send one? You need SMS.SEVT which is only in SMSQ 2.71+ (the only way to prevent ERR.NC return?). I think you might mean latest QPTR was updated to deal with events. But QPTR is only a BASIC toolkit to access the IOP WM calls. This only would have made QPTR able to use events under SMSQ v2.71+ No, QPTR is just the basic interface to the PE, so it can't do more than the PE itself... Actually I thought the PE / OS had been upgraded, but you're right, I just checked the documentation and events don't work on QDOS, you need SMSQ for that. To get around that, FiFi uises a timeout on machines that don't support events. Wolfgang
