Kees Bergwerf wrote in a message to Frank McCormick:


 FM> Yes, I am having serious problems with comport handling. Alpha2 should
 FM> be out in a week or so with the problems (hopefully) resolved.

 KB> I could not see what happened on my system when I tried Wave. So if
 KB> there were any errors.. perhaps you can make Wave write them in a
 KB> logfile. Even when the wave.ini can not be found, use a logfile
 KB> WAVERR.LOG or whatever. 

It is supposed to log errors to error.log. But the version you have
(alpha1) probably doesn't run remotely - it does run locally.

 FM> I am going to eliminate that CTL file altogether. It's not really needed
 FM> now.

 KB> Ok :-). So you don't need PDRIVE.EXE also?


Nope. Apha2 will use a native OS/2 protocol...and eventaully I'd like to
incorporate the routines in the program itself. I have the DLL's.


 KB>> COM6:         <<< this is what is giving me trouble.

 KB> Why?
 KB> It is just a kind of file-handle of an already open file (device),
 KB> so use it. I have tried to make a chtat program and I found some
 KB> code for the seriel port, but it was from a PM program and I don't
 KB> know how to program for PM. So I got no output at my screen :-(,
 KB> but the program works fine (the other end can see things happen :-)
 KB> ). It uses the com-handle that Maximus gives to the program, just
 KB> like above: the handle is  (in this case).

That's what I've been told...but others say OS/2 complains if your
application doesn't open the port. 

Frank



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