Notes 3.0, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.31 OS/2 clients have a bug where the Notes background
process (and the desktop along with it) hangs if the Notes client process
doesn't perform at least one action with the modem -- hang it up, dial out,
change the setting, anything, before the background process attempts its
first access of the modem. My problem is that I start Notes and forget to
work around this bug, crashing my desktop.

The nature of Notes is that the client ($lnotes.exe) starts the background
process ($backgnd.exe), and the two share the modem. Periodically, $backgnd
attempts to assert control of the port long enough to perform a
replication, and in the foreground I can connect to a Notes server
interactively.

I have written a program that takes the place of $backgnd, gets called by
$lnotes, twiddles the modem, and then calls the original $backgnd. Right
now, $backgnd is complaining because it can't get access to the comm port.
What I think I'm missing is either the process of sharing a comm port
between processes, or the process of inheriting a comm port from a process,
so I need to see a relevant example of each.

There are thousands of Notes users who will enshrine me if I pull this off.
Who will join me in this quest for honor and glory?

Jeff

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