home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.programmer:7536 comp.os.os2.advocacy:12153
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!The-Star.honeywell.com!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!rcain
- From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
- Subject: Re: How to bet $100,000 on OS/2 and lose it.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.231505.28946@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1993Jan12.191909.6957@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:15:05 GMT
- Lines: 29
-
- shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:
- : In article <1993Jan12.175549.15638@netcom.com> rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:
- : }I wish to report that IBM is doing a great deal to assist me in
- : }response to my early morning bitch. Thanks to some unsolicited and
- : }excellent technical advice from an IBM developer in Boca I now see a
- : }very elegant and simple way to accomplish my goal without need for the
- : }driver at all. A much better solution than the one I envisioned.
- :
- : Would you be willing to share this insight even though I am such an
- : OS/2 neophyte, I might not know what to do with it?
- :
-
- It's so simple I am almost ashamed to tell. A device monitor hung at
- the tail end, fielding output to LPT1. It has many advantages over
- hacking the driver. I have sample code. The fun starts with:
-
- if (RC = DosMonOpen((PSZ)"LPT1", (PHMONITOR)&MonHandle))
-
- Peace,
-
- Bob
- --
- Bob Cain rcain@netcom.com 408-358-2007
-
- 'The meek shall inherit the earth--the rest of us will move on..'
- Sameer Parekh
-
-
- PGP 1.0 or 2.0 public key available on request.
-