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- Message number 6655 in "Net Mail"
- Date: 05-17-92 12:19
- From: David Reed
- To: George Vandervort
- Subj: OS/2
-
- Hello George!
-
- Saturday May 16 1992, George Vandervort writes to David Reed:
-
- GV> I think lots of sysop may benifit from your mistakes and or experience
- GV> with OS/2 and QuickBBS..
-
- Yea, but my hair line seems to be diminishing! ;-)
-
- Here's what I've come up with for now. Since you are more than competant
- with Binkley/QuickBBS/etc, I'll leave out the trivial stuff.
-
- In the batch file that runs Bink/Quick, you'll need to include these
- commands:
-
- ECHO ATZ > COM1 <== see below
- x00 E 1 B,0,38400 F=15 R=2048 T=1024 <== from the x00 v1.49a notes
-
- This is after a plain vanilla OS/2 installation using the HPFS. Make sure
- you leave com.sys AND vcom.sys in your config.sys. Also, if you need to
- re-map your comports for some reason, as I do here, the config.sys looks like
- this:
-
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\POINTDD.SYS
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS SERIAL=COM2
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS (1,3F8,4) (3,3E8,5)
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS (1,3F8,4) (3,3E8,5)
-
- My main D'Bridge/QuickBBS node is on COM1, mouse on COM2, and my 2400b "test"
- modem is on COM3, remapped to IRQ5.
-
- BTW, if you pass this on to anyone else, D'Bridge will NOT work reliable
- under OS/2 set up this way. For D'Bridge to function, one must REM the
- vcom.sys out of config.sys, which results in tons of errors on data
- transfers. ;-(
-
- Which brings me to my next point. I've got Binkley pretty much set up, but
- need some help. In binkley.cfg I have BBS Spawn, but it's writing a
- bbsbatch.bat file with 1440 as the time until next event, no matter what I
- put in the events. QuickBBS chokes (or something) and comes up with 0 time
- remaining, that an event MUST run. ;-( Can you provide any pointers as to
- what I'm doing wrong?
-
- I'll keep you informed about my success/failure with OS/2. So far, once
- D'Bridge was out of the picture, things run VERY reliable here. QuickBBS is
- smooth, fast and reliable, as are all my door games. And that's all with the
- default OS/2 installation, and "teasing" the comport with the echo statement
- at the beginning of the batch file. Without that "teasing" my system locked
- up while trying to load any comm program (except Qmodem). Funny as it is,
- Qmodem works better in a DOS box under OS/2 than it did under DOS!
-
- Later,
-
- Dave.
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