Hello Daniel!

Saturday, January 18 1997, Daniel Lynes wrote to Jeffrey Habets:

 JH>> I would like to monitor all incoming and/or outgoing data on the
 JH>> serial port. Now, that wouldn't be to difficult if my program was the

 DL> You need to call the 16-bit DosMon...() API.  There aren't any functions
 DL> in the 32-bit API to accomplish this task.

No can do.. Those functions are not supported by the COMx character devices.

You can see for yourself be issueing a DosDevIOCtl() categorie 0Bh function
60h on the COMx device.

 JH>> only one using the com-port, but the case is that my program is the
 JH>> 'third-party' and an other program is taking care of communication.

 DL> Yes, it works exactly as you want it to.  N.B.  Part of it must be at the
 DL> driver level.  However, you may have a DLL or DLL/EXE callback suite of
 DL> routines.

I appreciate your help, but have you actually done this using the DosMon* functions?

Greetz from Maastricht/The Netherlands,
Jeffrey  >

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