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#Serial Port Ownership

    07-Mar-94 11:50:21
Sb: #Serial Port Ownership
Fm: Steve McDonnell 76247,1156
To: All
Hi there – Anybody out there have a suggestion, or some code, as to how I can detect if an application other than my own is using a serial port? Right now the app I'm trying to fix just makes the OpenDriver call and takes over the port from anything else that may be using it in the background. Since all the supporting toolbox routines seem to require the refNum from OpenDriver, I get the feeling there's a system global I need to look at. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.