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In article <1992Aug18.061004.19138@nuscc.nus.sg>, eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN
MENG) says:
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>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...

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>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 ]
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>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.

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>How's that?

  Cool.

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>hope it helps

  Thanks.
  It does.

>
>jin meng


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