Hello Paul!

In a message written on Thursday November 30 1995 at 04:37, Paul Edwards
remarks to All:

 PE> I have an application that writes a byte-at-a-time to the comm
 PE> port.  This works fine under DOS, but under OS/2 it requires an
 PE> OS call, which is not fine at all!!!  What is the simplest way
 PE> to overcome this problem, and please don't suggest that the
 PE> application itself be rewritten, as the goal is to make OS/2
 PE> provide the same facility as DOS, which is fast character comms.
 PE> I don't mind sticking some comms routines between the application
 PE> and the OS, but I'd like the simplest comms routines required.  I
 PE> can imagine that a multithreaded comms package would solve the
 PE> problem by filling a buffer until the thread is terminated, and
 PE> then send the next buffer.  BFN.  Paul.

If you're using text mode, you could try the Doors/2 door package.  It's
multithreaded and easy to use.  You can get it by FTP from ftp.cts.com in
/pub/joeld, or freq DRS2V5B3.ZIP from 1:202/704.

-- PaulS
    sidorskp{at}cadvision.com

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