On Friday, 96/11/08, Leslie Rhorer wrote to David Noon about "Named
Pipes" as follows:

LR>         No, it's to the parallel port.  That's how the controller does its 
LR> work, by writing to the 12 bits which produce the data and 
LR> control for the fade unit.

Hi Les,

OK, the parallel port shouldn't be any big deal then.

LR>         I'm not certain to what MCI refers.

It's a control interface for multimedia stuff. Irrelevant to parallel
ports.

LR> author suggested Named Pipes, of course, which leads us to 
LR> where we are now.  You had some other ideas.

Event semaphores.

I've dug up my copy of Ralf Brown's interrupt list. We might be able
to get this sorted out quite soon, since the OS/2 program can do all
the grunt work of setting up the semaphore and posting it when it's
ready. The DOS program need only open the semaphore, wait on the
semaphore post and close it, using an INT for each. It should be
do-able in Power BASIC, since it can issue DOS interrupts (I think).
I'll fiddle around with QBASIC, since I don't own a copy of Power
BASIC, to try it out here.

Regards

Dave


 * KWQ/2 1.2i * Volvo (adj.,Swedish): asleep at the wheel.

--- Maximus/2 3.01