Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven.umd.edu!umd5!dzoey@terminus.umd.edu From: dzoey@terminus.umd.edu (Joe Herman) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer Subject: Re: IPC from DOS box under 2.0? Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 91 15:56:45 GMT References: <1991Jun18.004338.13748@morrow.stanford.edu> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Lines: 20 BR.MJC@forsythe.stanford.edu (Michael Carroll) writes: >I haven't been able to find any definite or detailed information about >interprocess communication, under OS/2 2.0, between a program running in a DOS >compatibility box and an OS/2 program. >Anybody seen anything that's not just hype and/or conjecture? -- Thanks. Well, since OS/2 will support DPMI, you would probably do IPC between DOS boxes and an OS/2 program via INT 2F calls. That's how I do it under windows, and OS/2 will support the same method. Now, if you're asking "will there be an IPC toolkit?", that I can't answer (I'd be surprised if there was). Joe Herman U. of Maryland dzoey@terminus.umd.edu -- "Everything is wonderful until you know something about it."