Subj : DOS BBS in Win2000
To   : Torbjorn Mohn
From : Craig Healy
Date : Thu Jul 13 2000 05:13 pm

-> > DOS apps can access the COM port without a FOSSIL.  I'm typing
-> > this connected with Telix 3.22 for DOS on a Win2000 machine.  No
-> > FOSSIL.
->
-> NT/win2000 will let a DOS program access the com port without a
-> fossil. What it will NOT do however, is let go of the COM port
-> from one DOS app to another hence the problem Doug Gleason was
-> describing. Same problem occurs if and run a DOS based door from
-> a BBS system.

So you'd need to exit the BBS, run the door, and restart the BBS
as opposed to just shelling out.  Or wouldn't that work, either?

Is there a FOSSIL that actually works with Win2000?

-c-

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