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Article #2157Re: Talking to a DOS box from OS/2 2.0
From: Dave Mooney
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 17:12
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 17:12
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In <589@ddbeezer.Dundee.NCR.COM> Tim Craig writes:
> Can someone who has digested the wads of OS/2 2.0 doc please inform me
> if there is any method of communicating between an OS/2 process and
> something in a DOS box. I know this can be done via the clipboard but I
> was hoping for something a little more flexible (along the lines of pipes
> or even DDE as is possible between Windows and OS/2). Any ideas, pointers
> or references?
Create a named pipe on the OS/2 side, open up this pipe as a normal file
on the DOS side, and use the usual DOS I/O functions to read and write
this pipe.
dave
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!vnet.ibm.com From: dmm@vnet.ibm.com (Dave Mooney) Message-ID: <19920927.175722.227@almaden.ibm.com> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 13:12:03 EDT Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer Subject: Re: Talking to a DOS box from OS/2 2.0 Organization: IBM Canada Lab News-Software: UReply 3.0 References: <589@ddbeezer.Dundee.NCR.COM> Lines: 18