A creature called Jerry McBride screamed at Mike Stella:

 JM> Mike Stella wrote in a message to Jerry McBride:

Jerry, is this necessary?^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

 MS> So you want something that can take the com handle, and tell 
 MS> you what port (COM1, COM2, etc) it really is?  

 JM> No. I was hoping to drop the "dos way of doing things" and
 JM> use os2 comhandles instead of dos comports. As delivered,
 JM> rxasync uses a comport number to open and close the serial
 JM> ports. It'd be better, at least to me, to use handles, like
 JM> the rest of os2 does.

   I think I see now.  You want to pass the com handle (OS/2 method) to a
DOS program?  Dos programs won't like that.  Especially if you only have a
COM1, while the handle is really 5.

   .\\ike Stella

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