Subj : Improvement in SIO2K?
To   : Mark Lewis
From : Mike Luther
Date : Thu Jul 25 2002 01:03 am

Mark and others ...

 ml>> ATDT199.100.191.2              Bob Juge in Houston Texas

 BJ> Boy, is this old!

 ml> yup! that file is dated Mar 17 1997... in fact, the 
 ml> SYS and EXE files on my box are dated Oct 21 1997 
 ml> which is when i purchased my copy and they were 
 ml> serialized for my download ;-)

If the alpha mode dialing is used now, of course that makes less 
difference,provided that the name doesn't change!

Charles Claypoole and I now have the alpha deal working tonight.  There is 
another trick to getting things working if you are forced, as he is, to use a 
non-standard port.

Of course it is Mikey that don't know from moonshine here about compilation of 
NodeLists, but the way to get VMODEM to pass an alternate port is to define the 

numeric or alpha dialer string with:

      hisnode.com\ 60177

But only alter the nodelist alteration of what ever is needed to strip the 011 
or 1- that shows up or is put in there in QNODE for example as:

      011-hisnode.com  hisnode.com 50

I'm sure I'm the last guy on the planet to figure out that the NodeList 
compiler will only substitute for the LEADING part of the dialer replacement 
string that way!  What it will NOT do, at least here, is accept any form of 
that \ 60177 as in the example above, as part of the dialing string!  The net 
result of defining the number with the port designation, but not operating on 
anything but the LEADING part, will still, at least in the case of BINK here, 
permit you to pass the complete substitute port through the whole dialing 
process to VMODEM.  You get port control with full alpha dialing this way now 
as well.

For what it is worth to anyone who wants the information or didn't know it like 

Mikey dog here!

Solves the use of all this with DNS2GO etc., right nice like now this way.


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001

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