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Thanks.  I had suspected this was th case, and I have an idea for such an
intermediate application.

Thanks again,

Denville.

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47.no.spam@no.spam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Denville Longhurst" <Denville@metco.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > Is it possible for two applications to open a COM port simultaneously?
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> No.  Such resources can only be used by one thing at a time.
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> For what you ask, you will have to make it so that the application that
> opens the port stores the received data somewhere and makes it available
to
> the other application separately.  Either set asside shared memory, or
(what
> I did) create a dedicated server application whose sole purpose is to
access
> the port and then forward the data to any other application that wants the
> data via an IPC mechanism (TCP socket, names pipes, COM, etc).
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> Gambit
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