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to: DANIAL GIBSON
from: CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
date: 1997-04-20 12:03:00
subject: win95 mailslots

Hello Danial.
16 Apr 97 09:25, Danial Gibson wrote to Christian Andersen:
 DG>  Back onto mailslots. I was doing what you said (get every 2nd
 DG> message), and it worked. Until I sent two message together (ie, send
 DG> one message then send another immediately after - no pause), and for
 DG> the first message, it only sent it once. So this method doesn't work
 DG> _all_ the time. So I came up with a better idea. When you send each
 DG> message, add a packetnumber to the front. Then, when you receive a
 DG> message, check if this packetnumber is >= the last packetnumber. If it
 DG> is, discard the
 DG> message. It's more complicated to implement, but at works all the time
 DG> (as far as I can tell).
Thats a good idea too, Jerry Coffin suggested something, a bit, like this, a 
few days ago.
Christian
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