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

[James Jones]

I think it might be easier to find your process id and use it as part of
the file names.

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 8:02 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
>
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