Subj : Quick Question
To : Sean Dennis
From : mark lewis
Date : Mon Feb 06 2006 10:04 pm
JS> Hi there... I'm playing around with OS2 and ELE/2 and I have a quick
JS> question. I have SIO deal running but when I go to load a dos door,
JS> I'm trying to telnet in, the BBS works fine but the dos door choaks
JS> and says there is no fossil driver loaded. Is there some other
JS> command I'm missing??
SD> Do you have the - in the calling line in CONFIG.SYS?
SD> As in: COM1(38400,3F8,IRQ4,-)
SD> (that's just made up, I don't remember the exact values)
SD> The - is a poorly documented parameter to allow DOS doors to use
SD> the FOSSIL under SIO.
actually, the '-' tells SIO so allow the port to be shared by more than one
program at a time... it can be a gotcha, too... like the time that i forgot and
clicked on the wrong telix icon and loaded the one configured the same as the
bbs and both programs were trying to use the same comport at the same time...
not a very pretty picture ;)
