Is there a way to peek ahead and see how many bytes are in the COM buffer?

Article View: comp.os.os2

Article #997

#997

From: Ralph Yozzo
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1989 10:30

14 lines
1266 bytes

Does anyone know of a way to peek ahead and see how many bytes are in 
the COM1 buffer?
The reason I ask is that I'd like to read as many bytes
as possible from the COM port and I'd rather
not ask for too much because the DosRead() will block.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Ralph E. Yozzo                     |                                       |
| Arpanet: yozzo@ibm.com             |                                       |
| Bitnet: yozzo@yktvmx.bitnet        \---------------------------------------|
| Home: ..!uunet!bywater!acheron!larouch!yozzo  | Phone: (914) 945-3634 work |
|                                               | Phone: (914) 564-4731 home |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1989Dec24.103004.26003@larouch.uucp>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!uunet!bywater!acheron!archet!larouch!yozzo

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!uunet!bywater!acheron!archet!larouch!yozzo
From: yozzo@larouch.uucp (Ralph Yozzo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Is there a way to peek ahead and see how many bytes are in the COM buffer?
Message-ID: <1989Dec24.103004.26003@larouch.uucp>
Date: 24 Dec 89 10:30:04 GMT
Reply-To: yozzo@larouch.UUCP (Ralph Yozzo)
Organization: Larouch Headquarters, Hopewell Junction, NY
Lines: 14