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P. Scott Harris
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DOS mailslots library (Pascal source) available2004-02-26 06:08:39 AM off-topic5 As part of work on getting status information from DOS real-time controller tasks running on a network, I've developed a library of routines (Pascal source) that simplifies network mailslot access under DOS. Generic records can be mailed, as well as text. The library also includes the hooks for accessing mailslots through simple text device drivers ( Assign,Reset,Rewrite,Close etc). So DOS tasks can talk to DOS tasks over a network or running in a different DOS box on the same machine. The following sample DOS programmes are included: MAILTERM set up two instances of this to act like simple terminals talking to each other over a network MAILPUT send records to MAILGET, either locally or remotely MAILGET receive records from MAILPUT MAILWIN send messages to WinPopUp from DOS, locally or remotely MAILRDEV read mailslots like a DOS text device (Read,Readln etc) MAILWDEV write mailslots like a DOS text device (Write,Writeln etc) HL_MAIL the library No warranties or guarantees. This stuff works fine for me. It's available here: www.magma.ca/~psharris/hl_mail.zip Enjoy. P. Scott Harris, P.Eng. H&L Associates |