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- From: U55870@uicvm.uic.edu (David James Alexander Hanley)
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- Subject: Re: Communication between DOS windows
- Message-ID: <92233.004945U55870@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 05:49:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.061004.19138@nuscc.nus.sg>, eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN
- MENG) says:
- >
- >
- >I take it you do not want to emulate the actual serial comms - just any byte
- >stream will do.
-
- Exactly. It was also suggested by several people that I just connect
- 2 serial ports. I may yet do this, but I like this soloution better...
-
- >
- >Well with named pipes, a Dos program can communicate with an OS/2
- >program. With this as a basis, you can have DOS to DOS comms. Here's
- >how it works ...
- > [ Method deleted for brevity ]
- >
- >That's all. DOS programs can open and use pipes using normal file system
- >IO calls. Your main problem is writing the probably short OS/2 program
- >to do this.
-
- That's exactly what I was looking for. I imagine that similar
- mwthods may be useful in other cases as well. You are indeed correct, I
- don't really have any os/2 compiler, I wonder if REXX would do the job.
- I'll check it out.
-
- >
- >How's that?
-
- Cool.
-
- >
- >hope it helps
-
- Thanks.
- It does.
-
- >
- >jin meng
-
-
- dave
-