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| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 |
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I have two processes talking via a mailbox with 'Process B' doing the
writing (via a read attention AST) to 'Process A'. I have written
'Process B' but I am dealing with a package program as 'Process A'.
'Process A' normally talks to a terminal and picks up, not only the
entered text, but also the terminator sequence (CR, up arrow etc).
My question is, how can I get the mailbox handler to tell 'Process
A' that there is a terminator sequence and to pass it on? Is this
possible? The documentation I have for the Mailbox Handler does not
talk about terminators at all.
I am using V4.6 of VMS.
Thanks for any help
Don Mackay
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 580.1 | VIDEO::LEICHTERJ | Jerry Leichter | Fri Oct 16 1987 22:51 | 5 | |
Can't be done. Since the program is actually looking at the terminator, it must be using the terminal-driver-specific information in the IOSB. It's also implicitly using the terminal driver's parsing routines to pick up the terminators, parse escape sequences, etc. -- Jerry | |||||
| 580.2 | how to pass terminator in mailbox | VIDEO::OSMAN | type video::user$7:[osman]eric.six | Wed Oct 21 1987 13:21 | 6 |
If you really need to pass the terminators, you might want to implement some mailbox message types. One type would be TEXT, another would be TERMINATOR. Then, the program reading from real terminal could pass the info as TEXT and TERMINATOR down the mailbox. /Eric | |||||