Subj : DOS BBS in Win2000
To   : Craig Healy
From : Torbjorn Mohn
Date : Tue Jul 18 2000 01:13 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
> -> 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?

It will not work because when you exit the BBS the modem will drop the line i 
guess. MY problem is that my 32bit BBS system (BBBS/NT) working under NT4.0 
Server will not let go of the serial port for the 16bit (door) program to 
access it.

> 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.

Torbjorn

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