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Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:00:32 +0100
From: Matthias Paul <Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject: Re: several technical problems
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
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On 2003-11-30, Donald Pedder wrote:

>> trying to access modem from a few tasks simultaneously. (This is in
>> no way specific to DR-DOS Task Switcher, it is due to the way that
>> DOS task switchers work in general -- MS-DOS 5.0 DOSShell would
>> probably behave quite similarly.)
> 
>    Yes, I have found that once the modem gets used by a particular
> session, then weird things happen when you try to use it from another
> session, even after it's been hung-up. To use it okay from another
> session you have to kill the original session it was running in.

This is WAD and depends on the settings in %DRDOSCFG%\TASKMGR.INI.
Please have a look at the Timeout=AUTO|0|1..65534|65535 directives
of sections [COM1] [COM2] [COM3] [COM4].

If your system crashes while creating or deleting new tasks,
play with the Exec=TRUE|FALSE setting.

Hope it helps,

 Matthias

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