Re: Re: SexPOTS
By: Marceline Jones to DIGITAL MAN on Sun Mar 14 2021 05:00 pm
Does the "-live" option actually accept a handle ? because it appears to think "com2" is an initialisation file:
Yes, a com handle is a number. Because you're not passing a number,
but rather a string ("com2"), sexpots assumes you just mean to use "-live" without a handle and the argument following is parsed as an additional argument, thus a configuration filename.
Could you have used a socket or pipe instead ?
No, COM port are accessed via a COM handle (on Windows). It's part of the Win32 API.
The handle value would be ephemeral (not predictable) and a value returned by the original program that opened the com port (e.g. via open() or OpenFile()). So... likely not '2' either. --
Ah ok. Oh well, I doubt DOS returns a handle.
No, it definitely would not. I'm not clear what you're trying to do, but I don't think SexPOTS is the right thing for it.
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