| From: | Bart King |
| Date: | 07 Aug 2000 at 14:56:30 |
| Subject: | Re: (unknown) |
At 05-Aug-00 02:02:59, "Paul Hill" <paul@lagernet.clara.co.uk> wrote:
> I thought shared libraries can't do file IO directly? If I understand
> correctly you have to spawn a process to do the IO for you. I could be
> wrong though (perhaps this was in versions <= 1.3).
I've used Open(), ReadFile(), etc. without problem in a shared library
before, without spawning tasks or whatever.
I understand it inherits various properties from the opening process,
and since a program started from DOS/Workbench is a process, it's all
right... I guess. :)
> If anyone knows the answer I'd love to know - a shared library I'm
> programming at the moment needs to read some config files.
There's a config.library, that reads/writes psuedo-Windows .INI files
for the Amiga...