Mail Archives: opendos/2004/01/31/18:46:21
Originally to: Michele Marie Dalene
-=>> mark lewis wrote to Michele Marie Dalene <=-
ml>> i believe that is/was RLFOSSIL...
MMD> I figured that out last night (duh!) but it does not work
MMD> quite like bnu.sys or bnu.com. I would like to find a TSR or
MMD> a device driver type system.
that's the only one available for a pure DOS environment... all of they try to
emulate what ray gwinn (x00) created for the OS/2 environment with his vmodem
exe and protocol in his SIO comm interface package...
MMD> Now from reading the manual on how it works. do I set it up
MMD> like this, its only an example
sorry, i dunno... i've never attempted IP stuff for the BBS in a pure DOS
setup... i went to OS/2 Warp 3 Connect when it was released for public
consumption and have never looked back... within weeks after ray released his
SIO package, i was up online with my bbs running on the telnet stuff... i don't
recall when i registered SIO but when i did, i went for the 8 port package at
that time...
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MMD> What other fossils or com port emulators that are Msdos
MMD> native are out there?
none... RLFOSSIL was the only one written, TTBOMK... everything else was
targetted at the winwhatever environments and most of those at the winNT stuff
due to its "server" classification...
MMD> I am talking 16 bit here, Not Windows 9x or later.
MMD> I have checked my nightly CVS compiles of the Linux
MMD> maximus and it can't find two entries which I am going to
MMD> ask about in muffin.
yes, i'm seeing something out of whack, too... my runs consist of a totally
clean (nothing exists) build... script blows away the existing directory,
extracts the original archive, grabs the CVS, run the config, and the build...
then i look at the end of the build log to see if it tells me that it completed
correctly... if i don't see that, i go hunting...
MMD> If they fix those mites, I might be able to run maximus on
MMD> linux after all.
good luck! i know that bo has really been working on the telnet stuff...
if it were me, though... i'd just get (at least) OS/2 Warp 3 Connect installed,
ray gwinn's SIO package (v1.60d), and the OS/2 version of max and do it that
way... that works and has worked for many... the *nix stuff is still very beta
and unproven...
[disclaimer: i've only ever seen max from the user's side... even though i'm
compiling it and reporting errors, i've never run it... i've been runnint
RemoteAccess ever since RA v0.04 was released some 14 or so years ago...]
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