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From: Charlie@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Charles Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Communication between DOS applic's
Message-ID: <10189@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Date: 24 Nov 88 02:15:48 GMT
References: <344@hurt6.Huji.Ac.IL> <245400001@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: Charlie@Midgard.MN.Org (Charles Anderson)
Organization: The Midgard Realm, St Paul, MN
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In article <245400001@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>>Does anyone know of a way to pass data between two DOS applications
>>running under win/386 ?
>Answer: disk files and extreme care with timing.

Better yet, if your going to use disk files for 1k chunks, just have one of
the programs allocate a communications structure, and write the value of the
pointer (absolute segment, and offset) to the clipboard, or a disk file, and
then write all your stuff there.  --
Charlie Anderson - caa@midgard.mn.org