COMM locks under IDE

[Aldo Cavini]

A little... bug or feature? I'm sharing the same COMM line between a PBCC program and some PBDOS programs, which I launch from inside the IDE. After the PBDOS program ends (leaving the PBDOS IDE active), the PBCC program finds the COMM line is busy - The line becomes free to the PBCC program only after I exit the PBDOS IDE. Nothing weird, I'm just curious to know if it is a known issue.

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[Donald Darden]

Did you CLOSE the comm file in your code? That should happen for
you when the program terminates, but you indicate you are still in
the IDE, so the program is not running in standalone fashion.

What OS are you programming under?

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Old Navy Chief, Systems Engineer, Systems Analyst, now semi-retired

[Aldo Cavini]

Donald,

of course I'm closing the COMM before exiting, although the program should do it itself even under the IDE. I'm under Windows XP Pro SP2.

As I already stated, this is not a real problem, but since I think (am I wrong?) PowerBasic will release a new version of the compiler in the future, I'm signaling this so as they can do a check.

Thanks

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[This message has been edited by Aldo Cavini (edited February 15, 2006).]