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echo: os2prog
to: Mike Stella
from: Jerry McBride
date: 1995-02-28 21:48:38
subject: RXASYNC - Serial I/O

Mike Stella wrote in a message to Jerry McBride:

 MS> A creature called Jerry McBride screamed at Mike Stella:

Mike, is this neccessary?^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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

 MS>    Slightly off-topic, Maximus/2 can pass com ports like
 MS> COM1, COM2 if you hard code them into your DOORSYS.MEC or
 MS> whatever.  

 JM> You are absolutely right. But I was hopeing for a more
 JM> elegant fix than a hard code kludge...

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

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

Jerry McBride 
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