[Coco] Can a Basic09 program tell which screen or terminal it is running in ?

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Why not just use the process number itself?

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Oct 17, 2019, at 5:55 PM, coco at jechar.ca wrote:
> 
> 
> I was thinking of how a Basic09 program using
> temporary files in a multiprocess environment
> could be sure not to overwrite another process
> files.
> 
> For example if Program A was puting data in
> /r0/out.temp and Program B was trying to do
> the same thing problems.
> 
> One possible solution
> Suppose Process A is running in /term and process
> B is running in /w3 then if the process could
> determine which window it was running in it could
> add that info to the temporary file name,
> ie.
> 
> Process A saves to /r0/out-term.temp and
> Process B saves to /r0/out-w3.temp
> 
> No problem.
> 
> So I was wondering how could Process A figure out
> that it was running in /term ect. ?
> 
> Charlie
>