Fast message passing between Win32 app and DOS box app

[Guest_imported]

I'm looking for fast ways to pass messages between a Win32 app and DOS box app. I know the Windows clipboard is the standard way of doing this, however the shared nature and delay is too great for my applications. Are there any fast methods of doing this? I've heard that one way is to create VxD that maps a region of physical pmode memory to v86 mode memory in the DOS box. Another method I've heard of is to utilize shared memory above 2GB on a Win9x environment. I would like to know the details of these methods or any other methods to pass messages between a Win32 app and a DOS box app.

 

[palbano]

I would think that TCP/IP sockets would be much faster than using the clipboard.

-pete