On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, anna kotowski wrote:

Dear Ms. Kotowski:
> Dr. Ferenc Nagy wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Mar 1997 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> >
> > > But...V/PLUS, which is really
> > > just HiLi un-wrappered, does have the terminal file number in
> > I guess that the corresponding HiLi instrinsics are HPDENDISABLETERM and
> > HPDENABLETERM.  I have found the VPUS comarea structure in my VPLUS
> > manual, but there is no information about the structure of globalpak in
> > the HiLi manual. I suspect that HiLi stores some aditional info in the
> > globalpak, not only the comarea because it requires 300 bytes for
> > globalpak (about twice as the length of comarea).
> >
> > Now I have to dump out a globalpak after a HPDSEND if somebody does not
> > help me with its structure.
> >                                 Regards
> >                                              Frank
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>
> Hello,
> do you have the HI-LI Reference Manual?
> There you find the definition of the GLOBALPAK on page 3-3/3-4
> and also examples how to define it in different languages.
Yes I have.
> The manual is also on the Laserrom.
>
> The Globalpak contains 4 subparms:
> expectedvuf = eight-byte character array that indicates the
>               revision level of the intriniscs expected by the
> application. It should be int format v.uu.ff, and may
> contain the value A.00.00
> callprotocol = A four-byte integer that indicates how the data passed to
> the intrinsic is addressed.
> comarealen = a four-byte integer that indicates the size in butes of the
> communications area allocated by the application.
> comarea = an array that represents the area reseved by the application
Here is the lack of information. Does the "comarea" contain something more
than the corresprnding VPLUS buffer?
                                             Frank

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