🚀 go-pugleaf

shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:
: In article <1993Jan12.175549.15638@netcom.com> rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:
: }I wish to report that IBM is doing a great deal to assist me in
: }response to my early morning bitch.  Thanks to some unsolicited and
: }excellent technical advice from an IBM developer in Boca I now see a
: }very elegant and simple way to accomplish my goal without need for the
: }driver at all.  A much better solution than the one I envisioned.
: 
: Would you be willing to share this insight even though I am such an
: OS/2 neophyte, I might not know what to do with it?
: 

It's so simple I am almost ashamed to tell.  A device monitor hung at
the tail end, fielding output to LPT1.  It has many advantages over
hacking the driver.  I have sample code.  The fun starts with:

	if (RC = DosMonOpen((PSZ)"LPT1", (PHMONITOR)&MonHandle))

Peace,

Bob
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Bob Cain    rcain@netcom.com   408-358-2007

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