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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
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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.

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