Ian Timms wrote in a message to Jerry McBride:

 IT>  On the 02-08-95, Jerry Mcbride did converse with Ian Timms:

JM>Hi Ian!
JM>
JM>You still plugged into fidonet? :') I haven't seen any 
JM>posts from you in quite a while...

 IT> I'm still here.
 IT> (As you can see by the date, the delay is somewhat lengthy.
 IT> I tried netmailing you but don't know if you got it or not
 IT> so am posting this again. Cheers, Ian.)

Wow, those time zones are awful rough!

JM>I am getting along with rxasync, beautifully! 

 IT> Groovy.

Cool... 

JM>How do I pass a "hot" os2 comhandle to rxasync?

 IT> ...you won't need to do the RxAsyncOpen call as this will 
 IT> already have been done by Maximus, just plop the handle into a 
 IT> variable and pass to the other calls as per normal. 

I've been trying to accomplish this, but it fails, each and every time...

Sorry...

 IT> One point to note however is that the process that you are
 IT> running the RxAsync based script in should be a child of the
 IT> process which opened the com port so that it can inherit
 IT> access to it. 

That's how I do it. Bink passes the comhandle to max, max passes it to my
rexx script. It has yet to work for me... I'll get it right, I promise! :')

JM>The reason I wish to pass comhandles is it would simplify the writing
of JM>door programs for Maximus/2 2.02 as this bbs only passes 
JM>handles. 

 IT> The BBS I connect to uses Bink and RxAsync in just this way but 
 IT> to control BGFAX, if Max gets the handle from Bink then I can't 
 IT> see any problem in doing what you want.

That's great news! I'll work on my rexx somemore... Say, could your sysop
post some of his/her rexx scripts that utilize a "hot handle"?
That'd be great to look at.

Thanks,

Jerry McBride 
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