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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 11:52:56 -0700
From: Mitchell Spector <spector AT EnchantedLearning DOT com>
Reply-To: spector AT EnchantedLearning DOT com
Organization: Enchanted Learning Software
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
CC: Kurt Wall <kwall AT utw DOT com>
Subject: Re: DJGPP, interprocess communication, and DPMI
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Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
> Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> replied to Mitchell Spector <spector AT EnchantedLearning DOT com>
> > > On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Mitchell Spector wrote:
> > >
> > > > Can a DJGPP program running in a DOS box under Windows 95
> > > > communicate with another currently-running program (either
> > > > another DJGPP program in a different DOS box or a regular
> > > > Win32 app)?

[Clipped the clipboard suggestion... :-) ]

> Another solution would be to set up a pipe: one app pokes data into an address, the other app
> reads data out of the address.  The bookkeeping could get hairy, though.  I know that Win32, at
> least, has facilities for IPC such as shared memory and pipes.  Take a look at the SDK, if you can
> find it, for the 16-bit versions of Windows.
> 
> Kurt

Well, yes, but the question is if there's any way of accessing these
facilities from a DJGPP program?  All the set-up could even be done
by a Win32 program, but I don't know if it's possible for a program
sitting in a DOS box to participate in such a scheme.

Mitchell
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