Hello All!

After I got Virtual Pascal, I started to port my com. progs written in TP,
but OS/2 was new for me, and I had some problems with it.
Now I have it working, but I have still a few questions, maybe someone can
answer one or more.

-  I figured out you need to read more than one byte, because the overhead
is to high, and now I have a simple ring buffer system, but I wondered,
would it be possible to use a queue for it? Or would that also cause to
much overhead?
-  When I killed a thread with DosRead in it, OS/2 crashed. I fixed this by
suspending the thread, waiting 0.5 seconds (DosSleep), and then kill it.
But I think there must be a better way.
-  I don't understand the read timeout modes compleetly. What I want is a
mode that waits indefinitly for a char, and timeouts if there are no more
chars for the timeout time (but at least one).
-  Some ioctl call (flush output buffer) crashed my program if it was
called with the direction flag on. Is that a bug in OS/2 or in the compiler
(is somewhere specified that it must be off)?
-  My program hung if I created a thread with kbdcharin io_wait, did some
file access (a handle 1 write did it too), killed the thread and did a
kbdpeek io_nowait. I couldn't kill the program too, not by exiting it's
parent (VP) nor by killing it with the PM. I solved this by using
DosDevIoCtl instead of kbd..., but I wonder if this is an OS/2 problem or a
32  16 bit conversion problem in the compiler.

Greetings,
 Arne 
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