Hallo Ruud!

28 December 1994 14:12, Ruud Senden schreef aan All:

 RS > One of the pipes is used to send commands from the main thread to the
 RS > other thread, the other one to send status information from the other
 RS > thread to the main thread.

 RS > This works allright, except for one thing. When I do a DosRead() when
 RS > there is no command or status information on a pipe, the DosRead()-call
 RS > blocks until something is written to the pipe.

 RS > Since I also have to do other things in both threads, I don't want the
 RS > DosRead()-call to block.

 RS > Is it possible to do this, or is there a call to check whether there is
 RS > some data waiting or not, so I can call DosRead() only when there is data
 RS > waiting?

In de old 1.3 version there was a cal to do this. Since 2.0 IBM has deleted
this function, but you could use a separated thread to do a dosread with
timeout. Search for the program rcpopup.zip, this file contains a C-source
to do a async dosread.

Houdoe,

        Ronnie

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