Re: Programming problem: IPXListenForPacket

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From: Jerzy Tarasiuk
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:00

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>>>>> "m" == mist  <mist@cyberus.ca> writes:
m> I am issuing IPXListenForPacket, and the ECB's inUse flag returns F7h after the function call.
m> What does F7h indicate? It is not listed in the documentation...... if everything went well I think
m> it should be FEh (waiting for data) so it indicates everything hasn't gone well, but I don't know
m> what's gone wrong...

But why do you worry about it? If there is anything wrong,
the inUse becomes 0 and completionCode becomes non-zero.
The strange inUse value most likely is some intermediate
state like "just receiving" or "in event queue"...
Oh, of course make sure the byte you check is just inUse.

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From: jt@fuw.edu.pl (Jerzy Tarasiuk)
Subject: Re: Programming problem: IPXListenForPacket
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