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  3. From: steck@dworkin.ccs.northeastern.edu (Paul Steckler)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
  5. Subject: Com port locking?
  6. Message-ID: <1992Aug29.233514.20287@random.ccs.northeastern.edu>
  7. Date: 29 Aug 92 23:35:14 GMT
  8. Sender: news@random.ccs.northeastern.edu
  9. Organization: College of Computer Science, Northeastern University
  10. Lines: 24
  11. Originator: steck@dworkin.ccs.northeastern.edu
  12.  
  13. I like to have UUPoll, a poller for UUPC running in the 
  14. Windows background at all times.
  15.  
  16. If I'm running another comm program, and UUPoll makes a
  17. call, Windows reports device contention on the comm port.
  18.  
  19. Under OS/2, you can indicate that an application locks the
  20. comm port, so that a second program is denied its use.
  21.  
  22. Can I do something similar in Windows?  I don't like to see
  23. the device contention message -- I'd like UUPoll NOT to 
  24. get use of the comm port until I'm done with the other program.
  25.  
  26. -- Paul
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  29. | Paul Steckler                       |  Were I Brittania,              |
  30. | steck@dworkin.ccs.northeastern.edu  |    I'd waive the rules ...      |
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  34. | Paul Steckler                       |  Were I Brittania,              |
  35. | steck@dworkin.ccs.northeastern.edu  |    I'd waive the rules ...      |
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