Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 20:34:19 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: Greg Thomas <thomasgd AT omc DOT bt DOT co DOT uk>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:59:33 +0000
> 
> At the risk of prolonging the debate

That's not a risk at all, as long as the debate is useful and
civilized (as it was until now, I believe).

> I wonder if it would be possible
> to write a library that would allow you to call the Windows functions
> to access the COM ports

It's possible, but someone needs to crack down the backdoor into the
Windows VxD which controls the COM port, in the same manner as they
did with Winsock.