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to: VICTOR LOBERGER (Rcvd)
from: MATTHEW LAIRD
date: 1998-02-13 07:08:00
subject: Max/NT - Dos Doors ?

 VL>         I wonder how complicated the routine is that 
 VL> allows Argus/NT to pass an open com port to Maximus for 
 VL> DOS?  I would think that the same principle that allows 
 VL> Argus, a 32-bit program, to call Maximus/DOS, a 16-bit 
 VL> program, would work for Maximus/NT calling DOS doors.  
 VL> Perhaps it'd be just a "simple" re-write.  8-)
The trouble is that how Argus->Max/DOS is done is by Argus releasing the COM 
port and giving control over to Max.  Unfortunately, most doors aren't as 
smart about the COM port as Max is.  But it would be interesting.
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