Hello Jonathan!

19 Dec 94 05:14, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to Stephen Lindholm:


 JdBP>   But we should indulge in a reality check here.  It may be a lot
 JdBP> easier
 JdBP>   (and a lot better) just to replace the comms program that is
 JdBP> causing
 JdBP>   all of the difficulty in the first place, with one that can be
 JdBP>   properly killed by another process without damage.

 Appreciate your original suggestion, (I'm trying that).  I wish I could
replace the comm program; but it is third party and no longer supported by
the company that wrote it for the hardware vendor.  I absolutly need the
program to run that hardware remotely.  However, most of the communication
tasks are to just gather information that the hardware has stored and tell
the hardware to reset its buffers.  I suspect that I'd be able to write a
simple comm program to do that.  (Simple task in Perl, etc.)  But then I'd
need to stuff the information into the multiple databases that the main
program keeps and these are not simple ASCII.  However, because of the
complexity of the upload process and not having docs for the code nor the
data structure; I'd be really hard pressed to replace the upload in any
reasonable amount of time.

  I've heard rumors from the company that a (ugh) windows version will be
released sometime next year.  That will probably solve my problems.  Just
kinda hate to live with a problem that I believe that I can solve with a
little kind help from individuals like you.

tnx and 73's Paul

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