-=> Quoting Peter Schuller to David Muir <=-

 PS> As I just told Mikko, this is what I did:

 PS> HFILE hCom = 0L;
 PS> ULONG ulAction = 0;
 PS> ULONG ulBytesRead = 0;
 PS> ULONG ulWrote = 0;
 PS> ULONG ulLocal = 0;
 PS> APIRET rc = NO_ERROR;


 PS> rc = DosOpen (_argv[1], &hCom, &ulAction, 100L,
 PS> FILE_NORMAL,
 PS> OPEN_ACTION_OPEN_IF_EXISTS,
 PS> OPEN_ACCESS_READWRITE, 0L);


 PS> DosOpen returner 12, the porthandle was "5", for COM2 passed on by
 PS> Maximus/2. Any id*?

    now i haven't done anything 'port' wise for a bit, but it seems to me that 
if MAX is opassing you a file handle then that file is already open (and 
naturally dosopen will report an error). Try just writing to it (reading from 
it) as it should already be open.

Dave...

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