RE: Modem and Direct Screen Writes
BY: Peter Schuller to Mikko Hyvarinen on Thu Jul 18 1996 10:45:32

 > I got a "tip" on that, tryed that, but I didn't get it to
work, this is what
 > did
 > 
 >    HFILE hCom = 0L;
 >    ULONG ulAction = 0;
 >    ULONG ulBytesRead = 0;
 >    ULONG ulWrote = 0;
 >    ULONG ulLocal = 0;
 >    APIRET rc = NO_ERROR;
 > 
 > 
 >    rc = DosOpen (_argv[1], &hCom, &ulAction, 100L,
                    ^^^^^^^^
     At first guess I think your problem is here....argv is a string so you are
just passing the string....need to convert it to a int before you pass it.

But again that is just a guess.

 >       FILE_NORMAL,
 >       OPEN_ACTION_OPEN_IF_EXISTS,
 >       OPEN_ACCESS_READWRITE, 0L);
 > 
 > 
 > But it won't work, DosOpen return 12. Maximus passes on porthandle
"5" for
 > COM2. Is there any specific "flag" i have to use?
 > 


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