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Maybe you could find an OS/2 Warp 4 installation kit = 2 CDs
somewhere.

If somebody makes ISO images and posts an Emule link, maybe I can ...

There are however a couple of fixpaks to be considered but I do
have them. So far I haven't needed them.

Those too.

The only solution would be to run old hardware, CPU <= 350mhz.

But JK>that's hard to find nowdays, even on Ebay.

That is a good solution. The OS/2 Warp 5 operating systems
requires very little processor power and occupies only 120 Mb on
the HD. That means that you have plenty of space even in a 1 Gb
partition.

Not so good really. Motherboards of that vintage are 20 years old
now. That exceeds the life expectancy of the electrolytic capacitors JK>onboard. They can be replaced at small cost, if you can do the job JK>yourself, but it requires steady hands and good eyesight.

I solved the problem by running OS/2 WARP as a guest operating system
under VMware's VM workstation product. I've got OS/2 WARP 3 running
PCBoard sitting on a Windows 2008 R2 server as a guest VM. I no longer
have to worry about hardware. I only support telnet access.


Jeff

CMPQwk 1.42-21 9999
Hope and change = $1T deficit and 10%+ unemployment .....

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I solved the problem by running OS/2 WARP as a guest operating system
under VMware's VM workstation product. I've got OS/2 WARP 3 running
PCBoard sitting on a Windows 2008 R2 server as a guest VM. I no
longer have to worry about hardware. I only support telnet access.

I'm familiar with all those, but making PCBoard talk telnet is the
missing link. What do you use for that?

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On Mon, 06 Jan 2014, John Kelly wrote to Jeff Binkley:

I solved the problem by running OS/2 WARP as a guest operating
system under VMware's VM workstation product. I've got OS/2 WARP 3
running PCBoard sitting on a Windows 2008 R2 server as a guest VM.
I no longer have to worry about hardware. I only support telnet
access.

I'm familiar with all those, but making PCBoard talk telnet is the missing link. What do you use for that?

on winwhatever, that would be netserial, i think... whatever product of pcmike's that emulates a modem...

on OS/2, that would be the vmodem driver with the SIO replacement comms package
from Ray Gwinn of X00 fame...

on linux, i understand that there's something built into dosbox or dosemu or such...

)\/(ark


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I solved the problem by running OS/2 WARP as a guest operating system under VMware's VM workstation product. I've got OS/2 WARP 3 running PCBoard sitting on a Windows 2008 R2 server as a guest VM. I no
longer have to worry about hardware. I only support telnet access.

I'm familiar with all those, but making PCBoard talk telnet is the
missing link. What do you use for that?

If he is using OS/2, then probably by using SIO and VMODEM.EXE, both
part of the same package by Ray Gwinn, who, BTW, I see on Facebook from
time to time.
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I solved the problem by running OS/2 WARP as a guest operating
system under VMware's VM workstation product. I've got OS/2 WARP
3 running PCBoard sitting on a Windows 2008 R2 server as a guest
VM. I no longer have to worry about hardware. I only support
telnet access.

I'm familiar with all those, but making PCBoard talk telnet is the JK>missing link. What do you use for that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIO_(software)

SIO/Vmodem. It uses Telnet to create virtual com ports for PCBoard.


Jeff

CMPQwk 1.42-21 9999
Democrats -- The party that penalizes success and rewards failure ...

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Jeff

Democrats -- The party that penalizes success and rewards failure

I don't like seeing political propaganda in a technical echo, taglines notwithstanding.

You may as well say democrats are lazy and stupid. Suppose I say
republicans are greedy and selfish. How does that help anyone?

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Democrats -- The party that penalizes success and rewards failure

I don't like seeing political propaganda in a technical echo, taglines notwithstanding.

You may as well say democrats are lazy and stupid. Suppose I say
republicans are greedy and selfish. How does that help anyone?

It probably would have went unnoticed until You posted the above. Thats
all I'll say. It's funny how things like that work.

Mike.
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On Sun, 12 Jan 2014, Trifle Menot wrote to Jeff Binkley:

Jeff

Democrats -- The party that penalizes success and rewards failure

I don't like seeing political propaganda in a technical echo,
taglines notwithstanding.

i don't either but... please see (routed) netmail coming your way...

)\/(ark
moderator, PCBOARD

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Democrats -- The party that penalizes success and rewards failure

I don't like seeing political propaganda in a technical echo,
taglines notwithstanding.

I typically only respond in political echoes and didn't turn off
taglines when I responded here. I'll turn it off in the future. (Look
no tagline below)

You may as well say democrats are lazy and stupid.

I checked and that isn't in my tagline file.

Suppose I say republicans are greedy and selfish.

I've heard it many times before.

How does that help anyone?

If I were to render my opinion here it might continue this discussion
much further than the rest of the echo participants would wish to
endure.



Jeff

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On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Jeff Binkley wrote to Trifle Menot:

Democrats -- The party that penalizes success and rewards failure

I don't like seeing political propaganda in a technical echo,
taglines notwithstanding.

I typically only respond in political echoes and didn't turn off
taglines when I responded here. I'll turn it off in the future.
(Look no tagline below)

thank you jeff... please don't post anythin further on this offtopic side topic
;)

)\/(ark

moderator, PCBOARD

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. - Werner Heisenberg

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I don't like seeing political propaganda

I typically only respond in political echoes and didn't turn off taglines when I responded here. I'll turn it off in the future.

I'm not strictly opposed to things off topic here, it's practically a ghost town. I only know two PCBOARD systems active, worldwide, Mike Luko's and Luis Silva's. There's not much audience to offend; the echo went unmoderated for a long time without trouble.

I didn't say don't talk politics, I said I don't like propaganda. There's a difference.

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making PCBoard talk telnet is the missing link.

on OS/2, that would be the vmodem driver with the SIO replacement
comms package from Ray Gwinn of X00 fame...

In the sio2k docs, Ray says Warp server ebiz fails when using serial
ports and IRQ 3. I also read that the server and client code base was
merged as of fixpak 13.

So I installed Warp 4, fixpak 9, and sio2k. I use a 2 port serial PCI
card on IRQ 3. I can start a file transfer but it stalls and dies. So
much for sio2k.

Then I read that MCP2 has new serial drivers from IBM that support PCI
serial cards with IRQ sharing. So I tried MCP 2. Also stalls and dies.
Must be true about the problem with IRQ 3. And the MCP2 peer networking
fails when you disconnect a share and try to reconnect it. At least that
worked right on WARP 4.

There are some post MCP2 fixpaks, but google turns up no download sites
for them. Apparently the only way to get them is from the ECS website,
and for that you must be a paying customer.

I hadn't looked at OS/2 since the early 1990s, and I was hoping it had
improved with age. But it's as frustrating now as it was then.

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On Fri, 10 Jan 2014, John Kelly wrote to Mark Lewis:

making PCBoard talk telnet is the missing link.

on OS/2, that would be the vmodem driver with the SIO replacement
comms package from Ray Gwinn of X00 fame...

In the sio2k docs, Ray says Warp server ebiz fails when using
serial ports and IRQ 3. I also read that the server and client
code base was merged as of fixpak 13.

i don't know... i do not use sio2k... there are known problems with it... the previous version works great, though... i (still) use it on my eCS system which
is installed clean and then my existing drives moved over with all my existing operations configurations...

So I installed Warp 4, fixpak 9, and sio2k. I use a 2 port serial
PCI card on IRQ 3. I can start a file transfer but it stalls and
dies. So much for sio2k.

use the previous version instead of sio2k ;)

[trim]

I hadn't looked at OS/2 since the early 1990s, and I was hoping it
had improved with age. But it's as frustrating now as it was then.

i had to jump from Warp 3 Connect to eCS... i couldn't get Warp 4 of any flavor
to install and work on my machines... i didn't have time to stay down longer than i was... several days was already too long... so i went with eCS and haven't looked back... all of my operation remaing the same as it was on Warp 3
Connect ;)

)\/(ark

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I don't like seeing political propaganda

I typically only respond in political echoes and didn't turn off
taglines when I responded here. I'll turn it off in the future.

I'm not strictly opposed to things off topic here, it's practically a TM>ghost town. I only know two PCBOARD systems active, worldwide, Mike TM>Luko's and Luis Silva's.

Well now we can say there are 3 PCBoard systems :)



Jeff

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making PCBoard talk telnet is the missing link.

on OS/2, that would be the vmodem driver with the SIO replacement
comms package from Ray Gwinn of X00 fame...

In the sio2k docs, Ray says Warp server ebiz fails when using serial JK>ports and IRQ 3. I also read that the server and client code base
was merged as of fixpak 13.

So I installed Warp 4, fixpak 9, and sio2k. I use a 2 port serial
PCI card on IRQ 3. I can start a file transfer but it stalls and
dies. So much for sio2k.

Then I read that MCP2 has new serial drivers from IBM that support
PCI serial cards with IRQ sharing. So I tried MCP 2. Also stalls and JK>dies. Must be true about the problem with IRQ 3. And the MCP2 peer JK>networking fails when you disconnect a share and try to reconnect it.
At least that worked right on WARP 4.

There are some post MCP2 fixpaks, but google turns up no download
sites for them. Apparently the only way to get them is from the ECS JK>website, and for that you must be a paying customer.

I hadn't looked at OS/2 since the early 1990s, and I was hoping it
had improved with age. But it's as frustrating now as it was then.

I am running Warp 3 Connect, under VMworkstation with SIO. It took me
the better part of 8 hours to get OS/2 to load and run under
VMworkstation but now it is solid. It means I never have to worry about hardware again.

Right now I have a Windows 2008R2 server as the host OS running
instances of OS/2, Windows 2003R2 server, Linux Slackware 14.0, Windows
7, a Juniper SSL VPN appliance VM and more.


Jeff

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I only know two PCBOARD systems active, worldwide

Well now we can say there are 3 PCBoard systems :)

Depends on your definition of "active".

Has it been in daily operation for a year or more, does it have any non sysop users who actually call, etc.

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I am running Warp 3 Connect, under VMworkstation with SIO. It took
me the better part of 8 hours to get OS/2 to load and run under VMworkstation but now it is solid. It means I never have to worry
about hardware again.

Right now I have a Windows 2008R2 server as the host OS running
instances of OS/2, Windows 2003R2 server, Linux Slackware 14.0,
Windows 7, a Juniper SSL VPN appliance VM and more.

I've used it for testing too. But for day to day operation, I don't
like sacrificing the performance of real metal.

I'll take another look at SIO, pre sio2k.

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i had to jump from Warp 3 Connect to eCS... i couldn't get Warp 4 of
any flavor to install and work on my machines... i didn't have time
to stay down longer than i was... several days was already too
long... so i went with eCS and haven't looked back... all of my
operation remaing the same as it was on Warp 3 Connect ;)

I couldn't install Warp 4 on real hardware until I got the idedasd fixes
for large hard drives. I wonder if that works with Warp 3 too. Is that
why you had to upgrade from Warp 3?

I don't think I want to pay for ECS. Seems like their business is on
life support now, judging by their web site. Development plans extend
thru 2005 (or so)? That was almost a decade ago.

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In a message dated 01-14-14, Trifle Menot said to Jeff Binkley:

I'm not strictly opposed to things off topic here, it's practically
a ghost town. I only know two PCBOARD systems active, worldwide,
Mike Luko's and Luis Silva's. There's not much audience to offend;
the echo went unmoderated for a long time without trouble.

It seems to me that you must have missed other PCBoard BBS's also since
you have missed my BBS. Please do a full study before you start counting
next time.

Have a nice day,

Holger

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* MR/2 2.30 * All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

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In a message dated 01-10-14, John Kelly said to Mark Lewis:

Hi John,

So I installed Warp 4, fixpak 9, and sio2k. I use a 2 port serial
PCI card on IRQ 3. I can start a file transfer but it stalls and
dies. So much for sio2k.

Did you ever think of disabling the serial port using IRQ 3 in the BIOS
and let SIO handle the port?

Have a nice day,

Holger

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I only know two PCBOARD systems active, worldwide

It seems to me that you must have missed other PCBoard BBS's also since you have missed my BBS.

I said "active." How many users call your BBS regularly? (sysop does not count)

Please do a full study before you start counting next time.

I said "I only know." That means personal knowledge and experience. I did not say my knowledge is comprehensive, or that I undertook any "study."

If you want me to conduct a "full study," we can discuss my consulting fees via netmail.

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So much for sio2k.

Did you ever think of disabling the serial port using IRQ 3 in the
BIOS and let SIO handle the port?

How can SIO handle the port without an IRQ? Use polling? I don't think
SIO will do that.

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Did you ever think of disabling the serial port using IRQ 3 in the
BIOS and let SIO handle the port?

How can SIO handle the port without an IRQ? Use polling? I don't think
SIO will do that.

It will; however, IIRC only if native OS/2 comm apps are using the
port. Otherwise, you have to assign IRQs for DOS and Win64 comm apps.
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In a message dated 01-19-14, John Kelly said to Holger Granholm:

How can SIO handle the port without an IRQ? Use polling? I don't
think SIO will do that.

I strongly recommend reading the manual (documentation).
I have been using SIO for years and since my "serial" communication goes
via the the extension slots in the machine the serial ports are disabled
in the BIOS.

Regards,

Holger

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Well now we can say there are 3 PCBoard systems :)

Depends on your definition of "active".

Has it been in daily operation for a year or more, does it have any
non sysop users who actually call, etc.

My BSS has been around for around 20 years. I have a handful of users
that remain.


Jeff

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Did you ever think of disabling the serial port using IRQ 3 in
the BIOS and let SIO handle the port?

How can SIO handle the port without an IRQ? Use polling? I don't
think SIO will do that.

It will; however, IIRC only if native OS/2 comm apps are using the
port. Otherwise, you have to assign IRQs for DOS and Win64 comm
apps.

Here's my SIO config for using with PCBoard:

device=c:\sio\sio.sys [5,INTERNET:1F8,NONE:7] [6,INTERNET:1E8,NONE:7] [7,INTERNET:100,NONE:7] [8,INTERNET:108,NONE:7]

I don't use the first 4 comm ports and IRQ 7 is shared.


Jeff

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My BSS has been around for around 20 years. I have a handful of users that remain.

OK. What's the telnet address?

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How can SIO handle the port without an IRQ? Use polling?

It will; however, IIRC only if native OS/2 comm apps are using the
port. Otherwise, you have to assign IRQs for DOS and Win64 comm

You're thinking of the DOS reflection IRQ provided by the vsio.sys
virtual device driver. The sio.sys physical device driver requires an
IRQ (possibly shared) for every port; it will not do polling.

I think Holger assumed that my IRQ 3 was a motherboard com port that
could be disabled in the BIOS. That's not so; it's a PCI expansion card
that PCI assigns to IRQ 3, because there is no COM2 on the motherboard.

So I'm stuck with IRQ 3, like it or not. But as Mark said, sio2k may be
the problem. I'll try again with SIO 1.60d.

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On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, John Kelly wrote to Mark Lewis:

i had to jump from Warp 3 Connect to eCS... i couldn't get Warp 4 of
any flavor to install and work on my machines... i didn't have time
to stay down longer than i was... several days was already too
long... so i went with eCS and haven't looked back... all of my
operation remaing the same as it was on Warp 3 Connect ;)

I couldn't install Warp 4 on real hardware until I got the idedasd
fixes for large hard drives. I wonder if that works with Warp 3
too. Is that why you had to upgrade from Warp 3?

no... i had to upgrade due to a crash (when commercial power returned after the
UPSes were drained) that corrupted something and would not let Warp 3 Connect boot... i had to mirror the original drives to other drives and then install and copy all my operation's programs and data over to the new installation...

I don't think I want to pay for ECS. Seems like their business is
on life support now, judging by their web site. Development plans
extend thru 2005 (or so)? That was almost a decade ago.

never judge a book by its cover ;) i don't know what web site you looked at but
eCS is still being developed and worked on... i still see new driver files being reported for availability and testing when they are released ;)

)\/(ark

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In a message dated 01-20-14, Robert Wolfe said to John Kelly:

How can SIO handle the port without an IRQ? Use polling? I don't think
SIO will do that.

It will; however, IIRC only if native OS/2 comm apps are using the
port. Otherwise, you have to assign IRQs for DOS and Win64 comm
apps.

As long as you use the DOS built into OS/2 you don't need to assign an
IRQ for serial comms.

Have a nice day,

Holger

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@MSGID: 1:266/512@fidonet.org e859e5cb

My BSS has been around for around 20 years. I have a handful of
users that remain.

OK. What's the telnet address?

Telnet to: bbs.thebinks.com


Jeff

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I don't think I want to pay for ECS

The government pays skilled rats to snoop and steal (cyber espionage). They can invade and violate your privacy with impunity. Such acts could put normal citizens in jail. Thus the oxymoron: government morality.

If thepiratebay.se is immoral then the government must be too.

BTW, I've heard they have a torrent of ECS 2.0 GA ... but that's just hearsay, not admissible in court.

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In a message dated 01-21-14, John Kelly said to Robert Wolfe:

Hello John,

I think Holger assumed that my IRQ 3 was a motherboard com port that JK>could be disabled in the BIOS. That's not so; it's a PCI expansion
card that PCI assigns to IRQ 3, because there is no COM2 on the JK>motherboard.

I still do assume that the BIOS for your MoBo assigns COM ! and COM 2
as available options. Disable them in the BIOS!

Have a nice day,

Holger

___
* MR/2 2.30 * Running without Microsoft or Intel.

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Here's my SIO config for using with PCBoard:

Thanks.

device=c:\sio\sio.sys [5,INTERNET:1F8,NONE:7] [6,INTERNET:1E8,NONE:7] [7,INTERNET:100,NONE:7] [8,INTERNET:108,NONE:7]

I don't use the first 4 comm ports and IRQ 7 is shared.

Are your PCBoard ports configured for FOSSIL, or COM port? I could not
tell from the SIO 1.60d docs if the VX00 FOSSIL works with vmodem, or if
you have to use COM ports for FOSSIL.

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Here's my SIO config for using with PCBoard:

Thanks.

device=c:\sio\sio.sys [5,INTERNET:1F8,NONE:7]
[6,INTERNET:1E8,NONE:7] [7,INTERNET:100,NONE:7]
[8,INTERNET:108,NONE:7]

I don't use the first 4 comm ports and IRQ 7 is shared.

Are your PCBoard ports configured for FOSSIL, or COM port? I could
not tell from the SIO 1.60d docs if the VX00 FOSSIL works with
vmodem, or if you have to use COM ports for FOSSIL.

in PCBsetup the nodes are set to OS/2 com ports (matching the com port
numbers above 5,6,7,8 etc..) since I am running the OS/2 version of
PCboard. Other than setting this and locking the com port to 57600
under PCBsetup, that's about it.


Jeff

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I still do assume that the BIOS for your MoBo assigns COM ! and COM 2
as available options. Disable them in the BIOS!

I don't presume to know the BIOS of your motherboard. Yet you presume to
know mine, without seeing it.

But I do know this: not all BIOS have a COM2 enable/disable option when
the hardware port does not exist on the motherboard.

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On Wed, 22 Jan 2014, John Kelly wrote to Jeff Binkley:

Are your PCBoard ports configured for FOSSIL, or COM port? I
could not tell from the SIO 1.60d docs if the VX00 FOSSIL works
with vmodem, or if you have to use COM ports for FOSSIL.

if i am reading your question correctly, yes, it absolutely does... everything i use here that is accessible via telnet has to go thru VX00 and i have several
external door type programs that do not have fossil capability... AFAIK, everything works but it has been a long time since i was into all the configs...

)\/(ark

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. - Werner Heisenberg

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if the VX00 FOSSIL works with vmodem

if i am reading your question correctly, yes, it absolutely does... everything i use here that is accessible via telnet has to go thru
VX00

I understand telnet would require vmodem. But whether or not VX00 is
used seems like a different question ...

and i have several external door type programs that do not have
fossil capability... AFAIK, everything works

I don't see how a door without FOSSIL can work thru VX00, which only
provides FOSSIL support ... I'm not arguing, just trying to understand
how all the pieces fit, and what the possibilities are.

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I installed Warp 4, fixpak 9, and sio2k. I use a 2 port serial
PCI card on IRQ 3. I can start a file transfer but it stalls and
dies. So much for sio2k.

use the previous version instead of sio2k

With 1.60d, I got the same failure. So much for SIO working with my 2
port PCI card. Or so I thought ...

Some time later, I tested the onboard COM1 port with PCBoard on DOS.
Outbound transfers worked, but inbound failed. Puzzled, I looked at the
BIOS and noticed that power was set on APM. I had it that way for OS/2,
since Warp 4 does not understand ACPI.

I set it back to ACPI, and DOS inbound transfers started working fine.
So the motherboard is buggy when set for APM; the IRQ handling is messed
up.

Knowing that, I left it on ACPI and installed WARP 4 again. Now it all
works. SIO 1.60d and my 2 port serial PCI card on IRQ 3. Amazing what a
little BIOS setting can do.

Ray says Warp server ebiz fails when using serial ports and IRQ
3. I also read that the server and client code base was merged
as of fixpak 13.

Right now I'm at fixpak 10. Maybe I will go up to 12 and see if it still
works there.

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In a message dated 01-26-14, John Kelly said to Holger Granholm:

But I do know this: not all BIOS have a COM2 enable/disable option
when the hardware port does not exist on the motherboard.

Hello John,

I agree, my ThinkPad T61 has no physical serial port but COM1 is listed
in the BIOS. The older TP T23 has one physical serial port and both COM1
and COM2 are listed in the BIOS.

Needless to state that all my fixed machines do have both ports listed
in the BIOS as well as physically available but they are disabled in the
BIOS since they are used from the extension bus:es in the machine's.

Have a nice day,

Holger

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On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, John Kelly wrote to Mark Lewis:

if the VX00 FOSSIL works with vmodem

if i am reading your question correctly, yes, it absolutely does... everything i use here that is accessible via telnet has to go thru
VX00

I understand telnet would require vmodem. But whether or not VX00
is used seems like a different question ...

you are correct... i got confused :/ my system loads VX00 into every task that
needs it and i forgot that it was separate... for some reason i kept thinking it was part of vmodem... sorry...

)\/(ark

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JOHN KELLY wrote to HOLGER GRANHOLM <=-

Did you ever think of disabling the serial port using IRQ 3 in the
BIOS and let SIO handle the port?

How can SIO handle the port without an IRQ? Use polling? I don't think
SIO will do that.

That's what SIO was for -- for doing really cool comms related things under OS/2 :)

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JOHN KELLY wrote to JEFF BINKLEY <

Are your PCBoard ports configured for FOSSIL, or COM port? I could not tell from the SIO 1.60d docs if the VX00 FOSSIL works with vmodem, or
if you have to use COM ports for FOSSIL.

When under OS/2 or eCS I always used the /2 version of PCB so didn't really need to use the VX00.SYS driver, even though it was loaded in ever DOS
window.

... Kill them all! .... Let God sort them out.
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