Subj : DOS BBS in Win2000
To   : Torbjorn Mohn
From : Craig Healy
Date : Tue Jul 18 2000 04:53 pm

-> > -> 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
-> >
-> > 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?
->
-> It will not work because when you exit the BBS the modem will drop th
-> guess. MY problem is that my 32bit BBS system (BBBS/NT) working under
-> Server will not let go of the serial port for the 16bit (door) progra
-> access it.

Hrm.  That does sound correct..  Well, looks like I'll keep Wildcat 4
for the foreseeable future..

-> > Is there a FOSSIL that actually works with Win2000?
->
-> I have seen no new fossil drivers for NT for years, so a working one
-> for 2000 would have to be an old one for NT.

I'd think that NT/2000 has hooks in the OS to make programs like that
easier to write than DOS.  Then again, I know very little of 32 bit
programming.

-c-

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