Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!public!car From: car@public.BTR.COM (Carlos Rimola-Sarti car@btr.com) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer Subject: Re: IPC from DOS box under 2.0? Message-ID: <3125@public.BTR.COM> Date: 19 Jun 91 22:14:47 GMT References: <1991Jun18.004338.13748@morrow.stanford.edu> Organization: Communications Solutions, Inc. (CSI) Mountain View, California Lines: 30 In article dzoey@terminus.umd.edu (Joe Herman) writes: -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." Although I have not personally tried it, I am certain that you can use named pipes for OS/2 <--> DOS IPC. However, I believe DOS may not have the capability to create the pipe, only open it. +---------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Carlos Rimola-Sarti | email: car@btr.com | | Communications Solutions, Inc. | phone: 415-903-2585 | +---------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+