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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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