Re: using UNWINDER to read a joystick

From: Simon C Mills (simon++at++wgs.estec.esa.nl)
Date: 10/04/2001 01:57:24

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"Sankovet, Michael" wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Has anyone used the UNWINDER to read a joystick on an SGI running 6.5? If
> so have you tried using non-blocking reads? Any info would be appreciated.

Yes, quite successfully. I don't use non-blocking reads though, I spawn
off a seperate process to do the reading from the Unwinder and pass this
to my APP process via shared memory. This is just one serial device I'm
using and I use the same technique with all devices.

Regards, Simon
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