On the 02-08-95, Jerry Mcbride did converse with Ian Timms:

JM>Hi Ian!
JM>
JM>You still plugged into fidonet? :') I haven't seen any 
JM>posts from you in quite a while...

I'm still here.

(As you can see by the date, the delay is somewhat lengthy.
I tried netmailing you but don't know if you got it or not so
am posting this again. Cheers, Ian.)

JM>I am getting along with rxasync, beautifully! 

Groovy.

JM>But, I have a question for you.
JM>
JM>How do I pass a "hot" os2 comhandle to rxasync? As it is 
JM>appears, I can only pass the "old fashion" comport numbers 
JM>(ie., COM1, COM2, etc.)

Yep, all it means is you won't need to do the RxAsyncOpen call
as this will already have been done by Maximus, just plop the
handle into a variable and pass to the other calls as per normal.

One point to note however is that the process that you are running
the RxAsync based script in should be a child of the process which
opened the com port so that it can inherit access to it. This is an
OS/2 restriction (I think this still holds in 2.x). Also the open
needs to be of an appropriate type, ie. OPEN_SHARE_DENYNONE so
that you are permitted to read and write to it. Unfortunately,
some things (nameley IBM's SLIP) open in OPEN_SHARE_DENYREADWRITE
which is down right ornery! If opened via RxAsyncOpen you'll get
OPEN_SHARE_DENYNONE, I don't however know what Maximus uses but I
think it's the same as RxAsync.

If the process running RxAsync is not a child then I believe you
need to execute the RxAsyncOpen as the file handles are not sharable
accross OS/2 sessions (only unique and inheritable within the session,
the session may of course contain multiple related processes).

JM>The reason I wish to pass comhandles is it would simplify the writing of
JM>door programs for Maximus/2 2.02 as this bbs only passes 
JM>handles. 

The BBS I connect to uses Bink and RxAsync in just this way but to
control BGFAX, if Max gets the handle from Bink then I can't see
any problem in doing what you want.

JM>Thanks,

No worries.

 Cheers, Ian Timms.              [Team OS/2]

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