Subj : and for a real question To : Sean Dennis From : Elwyn Goldsbury Date : Sat Dec 28 2002 10:07 pm anyone care to refresh my memory on Com port numbers and handle numbers I have a problem with my 12 year old OS2 BBS -- ive connected it to internet as I want to give up the dial connection -- created a new Maximus window using COM4 and have SIO /VMODEM loaded and going Connection over ethernet using TCPIP works just fine with upload/ download / off line readers etc also working ok BUT when the above is fired up my dial users can no longer download their mail -- they fail with a message as follows " 20 Dec 22:33:15 MAX Return from: "maxpipe.exe 3 zip -jk -b -4 d:\ziptmp D:\Mail\Olr\node03\GENBOARD.qwk D:\Mail\Olr\node03\*.* d:\mail\olr\*" 20 Dec 22:33:15 MAX Archiver error (errorlevel 255)" for some reason the TCPIP VMODEM connetion is interfering with the dialed in user - if I close down the TCPIP MAXIMUS session and close down VMODEM then dial in returns to full function again Elwyn Goldsbury --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: GenBOARD/2 (Wellington, New Zealand) 64-4-479-1960 (3:771/160) .