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to: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
from: Brandt Everett
date: 1996-06-12 18:49:50
subject: Comm Help

RE: Comm Help
BY: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard to Brandt Everett on Tue Jun 11 1996 20:18:08

 >   However, that is definitely the *wrong* way to do things.  If the BBS
 >   program passes you a COM device handle, then USE IT.  There's no sense
 >   in faffing around opening the COM device yourself when you've been given
 >   a device handle to use already.
 > 
 >   And in the long term, your door program then doesn't have trouble when
 >   one day someone decides to install it on a LAN, where the COM device is
 >   called \\SERVER2\MODEM3 .

Ok, then what form/how is the comm handle passed in general...do I just use it
where I would put my Comm handle as if I had did a DosOpen Myself?


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