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Re: Task Obey madness

From "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk>
Subject Re: Task Obey madness
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Date 2011-07-05 12:08 +0200
Message-ID <51edf9eb59UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> (permalink)
References <6353b0ed51.martin@blueyonder.co.uk> <mpro.lntvzt002odox02pg.vinceh@softrock.co.uk> <51ede3e23cUCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> <iuugf2$u4e$1@dont-email.me> <51edf0d282Paul@sprie.nl>
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In article <51edf0d282Paul@sprie.nl>,
   Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> wrote:

> why has the handle% to be set to 0 at all?

In case it's tested subsequently - then we know not to attempt to close it.

It's a bit chicken/egg, and may not always be absolutely necessary, but if
you do that, nothing can go wrong.  Like I suggested, a good habit to get
into!

I think it was Adny Holdsworth who suggested it to me, long, long ago.
Probably in the very early development of Pic_Index.

John

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Task Obey madness Martin Bazley <martin.bazley@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-07-04 21:44 +0100
  Re: Task Obey madness Vince M Hudd <vinceh@softrock.co.uk> - 2011-07-04 22:35 +0100
    Re: Task Obey madness "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2011-07-05 08:07 +0200
      Re: Task Obey madness Rob Davison <nospamthanks@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-05 19:59 +1200
        Re: Task Obey madness Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2011-07-05 10:28 +0200
          Re: Task Obey madness "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2011-07-05 12:08 +0200
          Re: Task Obey madness Vince M Hudd <vinceh@softrock.co.uk> - 2011-07-05 11:36 +0100
            Re: Task Obey madness Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2011-07-05 12:43 +0200
              Re: Task Obey madness "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2011-07-05 12:51 +0200
                Re: Task Obey madness Ian Hamilton <Ian.Hamilton@AAUG.net> - 2011-07-05 12:03 +0100
                Re: Task Obey madness "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2011-07-05 13:32 +0200
                Re: Task Obey madness Vince M Hudd <vinceh@softrock.co.uk> - 2011-07-05 12:57 +0100
                Re: Task Obey madness "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2011-07-05 14:17 +0200
                Re: Task Obey madness Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2011-07-05 14:39 +0200
              Re: Task Obey madness Vince M Hudd <vinceh@softrock.co.uk> - 2011-07-05 12:22 +0100
          Re: Task Obey madness Rob Davison <nospamthanks@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-06 08:27 +1200
          Re: Task Obey madness Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-07-06 08:15 +0200
            Re: Task Obey madness jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk> - 2011-07-06 18:48 -0700
              Re: Task Obey madness "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2011-07-07 13:55 +0100
              Re: Task Obey madness Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-07-12 20:07 +0200
      Re: Task Obey madness cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2011-07-05 09:09 +0100
        Re: Task Obey madness Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2011-07-05 10:19 +0100
    Re: Task Obey madness Martin Bazley <martin.bazley@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-07-05 12:40 +0100
      Re: Task Obey madness Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2011-07-05 16:19 +0100
        Re: Task Obey madness Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2011-07-05 17:31 +0100
          Re: Task Obey madness Ian J Hartley <Ian.Hartley@sky.com> - 2011-07-06 12:35 +0100
            Re: Task Obey madness "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2011-07-07 13:57 +0100
              Re: Task Obey madness Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2011-07-07 21:18 +0100
              Re: Task Obey madness Ian J Hartley <Ian.Hartley@sky.com> - 2011-07-13 12:36 +0100
                Re: Task Obey madness "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2011-07-14 15:58 +0100
                Re: Task Obey madness Ian Hamilton <Ian.Hamilton@AAUG.net> - 2011-07-14 16:10 +0100
                Re: Task Obey madness Ian J Hartley <Ian.Hartley@sky.com> - 2011-07-17 12:30 +0100
                Re: Task Obey madness "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2011-07-17 14:23 +0100
                Re: Task Obey madness Ian J Hartley <Ian.Hartley@sky.com> - 2011-07-17 16:14 +0100
                Re: Task Obey madness druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-07-14 19:23 +0100
                Re: Task Obey madness Ian J Hartley <Ian.Hartley@sky.com> - 2011-07-17 14:17 +0100
  Re: Task Obey madness Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2011-07-05 22:15 +0100
    Re: Task Obey madness Rainer Schubert <dl6hbo@dl6hbo.inka.de> - 2011-07-08 17:14 +0200

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