Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!xanth!nic.MR.NET!umn-cs!Charlie From: Charlie@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Charles Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Communication between DOS applic's Message-ID: <10290@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> Date: 1 Dec 88 18:37:45 GMT References: <344@hurt6.Huji.Ac.IL> <106580003@hpcvlx.HP.COM> Reply-To: caa@MIdgard.MN.ORG (Charles Anderson) Organization: The Midgard Realm, St Paul, MN Lines: 21 In article <106580003@hpcvlx.HP.COM> bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner) writes: |>>>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. -- | |Better yet, allocate a block of shared memory and pass the handle on the |clipboard. If you pass a pointer that isn't to shared memory (allocated |with GMEM_SHARE), then it isn't guaranteed to work, especially if you have |bank-switching enabled. | |--Bill Turner The question is relating to DOS applications running under win/386 and I was assuming that he didn't have the SDK since he was only writing dos applications. -- Charlie Anderson - caa@midgard.mn.org