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From: deven@rpi.edu (Deven Corzine)
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Subject: Re: I wanna have a DOSGate!
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Date: 30 May 89 07:13:17 GMT
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In-reply-to: mcp@ziebmef.uucp's message of 28 May 89 21:13:43 GMT

In article <1989May28.171344.4525@ziebmef.uucp> mcp@ziebmef.uucp (Marc Plumb) writes:

> In article <16031@gryphon.COM> ddave@pnet02.cts.com (David Donley) writes:
> >Help!  I desperatly need to be able to fake a filehandle.  [...]
> >How can I fake normal standard programs into sending their stdio
> >into my BBS code?

> Write a DOS handler.  [...]

Well, I'm sure you could do something much more easily, and perhaps
flexible and reliable enough...  using ConMan's CNX: handler...

Execute("run >nil: <nil: prog <cnx:serial.device >cnx:serial.device",0,0);

or some such...

Just a thought.

Deven
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