On Wednesday, 96/09/18, Leslie Rhorer wrote to David Noon about "Named
Pipes" as follows:

LR>  I believe you had made an offer of assistance a while 
LR> back.  Is that still open?

Hi Les,

Sure thing.

LR>         I could send you the source, no worries.  I do also have Borland C++, 
LR> and porting might be little trouble, allowing me to do much 
LR> of the debugging and testing.  The author said his last 
LR> compile was under Visual Age C++.

I have Borland C/C++ 1.5 and IBM Visual Age C/C++. The latter is a
vastly superior compiler.

LR>  DN> There is, I believe, a DOS interrupt available in a VDM that can
LR>  DN> access an event semaphore created by an OS/2 process. [I don't have my
LR> 
LR>         This sounds *VERY* interesting.  Any further info?  
LR> Would it be difficult to implement?

Shouldn't be too difficult. A couple of subroutines written in Borland
C/C++ 3.1 should encapsulate event semaphores nicely. I'll need to trot
out my copy of Ralf Brown's list, but I know it's around here
somewhere.

LR>         At a more advanced stage, re-synchronization will be a definite plus, 
LR> as will getting the OS/2 process to start at a given time 
LR> after the start of the audio.  IOW, for editing purposes, 
LR> it would be *VERY* advantageous to be able to start and 
LR> synch the OS/2 and DOS processes at, say, 18 minutes 10.4 
LR> seconds into their respective files.

You should also be able to post a semaphore from a VDM, as well as
wait for one. I'll code both waiting and posting from a VDM.

LR>         Do you have access to Internet e-mail?  If so, 
LR> what's your e-mail address?

My e-mail address is dwnoon{at}ibm.net. UUencoded stuff is fine.

Regards

Dave


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