On 25 Nov 2004 at 16:09, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote: > Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > > On 24 Nov 2004 at 20:21, Rich Mellor wrote: > >>OK that should fit on a Trump Card, especially if the FILTER THING can > >>give the device driver the option of sending the output to a file instead > >>of a pipe. > > > > > > To to this within the device driver will be a non trivial task because you > > wil have to open a filing system channel from withing the open call of a > > non > > filing system device driver. > > That's what the FILTER THING would be very good for.
Probably not (?). I presume the 'thing' use call would open the channel to the filing system. If you call the thing use routine from within the PFF channel open call (which is what I see proposed), you have the same problem as you will STILL be within the channel open call when using the 'thing'! Wolfgang ---------------------------------------- www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
