A "quick" question regarding perl, serial I/O and windows. I have a program that is currently handleing I/O from a serial port running on windows (not of my creation) I would like to run a program at the same time that gathers the data comming in from the I/O port.

Questions:
1) is this even possible (to listen to a port while its being used by another program.
2) any thing special that I have to do or can I just go in and pretend the other program isn't there with the standard Win32::SerialPort?

edited: Sun Mar 9 14:42:12 2003 by jeffa - title change [was: Sneaky I/O (Windowz)]

In reply to Serial I/O and Win32 by £okì

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