On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:42:22AM -0500, Stephen Pair wrote:
> David,
> 
> The general mechanisms for handling file i/o asyncronously in Windows
> are called "I/O completion ports"...but, these APIs are only available
> on operating systems using the NT kernel (which all current Windows OSes
> use).  There's a white paper on the MSDN site called something like
> "writing scalable server applications in Windows NT"...it has a good
> discussion on doing asynchronous I/O using I/O completion ports.  Search
> for "completion ports" on msdn.microsoft.com.

Aha, that's what I was missing. And here it is in chapter 14 of my
new "Win32 System Programing" book (J.M. Hart, Addison-Wesley). I just
didn't read far enough.

Thanks!