Stewart Honsberger wrote in a message to Jan Hugo Prins:
 JHP> As far as I understood, the problem is that Win'95 does not allow you
 JHP> to hand over a hot comhandle to an other application. If this is true
 JHP> I don't know, you better check in a Windows Echo.
SH> Actually, with Windoze not being a 'real' operating system
SH> , it doesn't use hot com handles, it uses standard COM1,
SH> COM2, etc..
Well, Stewart, if you actually had a minimal concept of anything regarding 
Win95, you just might be entitled to an opinion.  But since you are 
(obviously) yet One More Bigot Without A Clue, you are cordially invited to 
take your big, flashy signature (which, BTW, only impresses those under the 
age of 17, with an IQ of 80, and the bad taste of a mafioso boss) and stick 
it into your loud, ignorant mouth.  Oh, I'm sorry; your foot is already 
there!  My bad...
Now, if you wanted to post something USEFUL (like just exactly why Win95 has 
the above problem), you might have said something like: The Win95 development 
team decided to not allow a 16 bit application to pass an open com port to a 
32-bit app, and vice versa.  And, since Dos-based BBSs generally use 
command.com (at 16-bit app, even under Win95), this would disallow the use of 
Max/NT with Dos doors.
 Me, I think it was a silly design choice.  But I don't work for MS, 
so...
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