Ian Timms wrote in a message to Jerry McBride:

 IT> G'day Jerry,

Salutations!

 IT> Got your messages okay but we've been having the odd hiccup
 IT> down here so I don't know how long the turnaround is, I even
 IT> tried netmailing back to you but have no idea whether it got
 IT> through.

Thanks for the atempt, it never made it, however...

 IT> Please accept my appologies for any intervening outbursts.
 IT> ;-) 

Why? I enjoy an occasional rub...

 IT> As to readwrite_denynone, if the calling program doesn't open 
 IT> the port in such a way that 'called' programs can use the 
 IT> handle then there is little point in providing the handle in 
 IT> the first place. OS/2 just spits the dummy and causes the 
 IT> child program to error if it attempts to write or read from the 
 IT> port when it is not allowed to do so.

Perhaps this is what my bbs does, MAXIMUS. I have tried to use the passed
handle with rxasync (with out calling rxasyncopen) and it failed to work.
However, I can call rxasyncopen and tell it what portname that the bbs is
on and it'll all work just fine. 

The only thing is, I have to pass portname (com1, etc...) with the call.

Ian, would it be possible to add in another function? One that would take a
hot porthandle passed from the bbs and just start using it?


Jerry McBride 
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