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echo: cis.tandy.coco
to: Bruce MacKenzie 71725,376
from: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
date: 1990-05-22 17:54:54
subject: #3703-Window Problems

#: 3704 S10/Tandy CoCo
    22-May-90  17:54:54
Sb: #3703-Window Problems
Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
To: Bruce MacKenzie 71725,376

Bruce - no. Link count is what you see with an Mdir. That's the count of links
to a module.

The user count shown in Ddir (or Devs, if under OSK), is the count of "users"
of a particular device. It goes up when a file is opened, down when a file is
closed. However, at least under L-II it only goes upward (never down) when you
do a CHD or CHX using a device's name.

This count is used to figure out when a device's init/terminate routines should
be called (that is, on first use, and when last use ends).

The "iniz" and "deiniz" commands artificially inc/dec this count, just as
"link" and "unlink" do for modules.

SOURCE: compuserve via textfiles.com

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