Ronnie van.Schaijk wrote on 08 Jan 1995 at 09:21 to Ruud Senden:

 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
 RS > data
 RS > waiting?

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

Well, I think I will drop the unnamed pipes and use queues instead (as
Peter Fitzsimmons said). Also I am redesigning the program so I won't need
a non-blocking read.

Regards, Ruud  (Internet: rsenden{at}cs.ruu.nl) 

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