DN> On Wednesday, 96/10/30, Leslie Rhorer wrote to David Noon about "Named
 DN> Pipes" as follows:

 LR>         Hello, David.  Have you had a chance to take a
 LR> quick look at the OS/2 app I sent you?  Any ideas?

 DN> Hi Les,

 DN> I've had a look at it, but it's slow going with no comments.

 DN> I noticed that you perform port I/O, presumably to a sound card. This

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

 DN> could leave you hostage to the VDD, if the sound card is supported
 DN> under OS/2. The I/O ports are only available to DOS apps if the VDD
 DN> permits it through virtualization, or if the card is totally
 DN> unsupported. Have you thought about using an MCI interface instead? [I

        I'm not certain to what MCI refers.  In any case, the VDD has
nothing to do with the DOS code, and the DOS code doesn't interact with
anything, really, except that it needs the synchronization cue to start its
timed process.  The other author suggested Named Pipes, of course, which
leads us to where we are now.  You had some other ideas.

                                                Les

e-mail: lrhorer{at}fibrcom.com

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