Subj : DOS BBS in Win2000
To   : Craig Healy
From : Torbjorn Mohn
Date : Wed Jul 19 2000 12:08 pm

> -> 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..

Unfortunately it IS correct, which meant I hade to drop most of the popular 
doors on my BBS 3 years ago when I switched from DOS/DV to NT:-( And I don't 
like Wildcat at all.:)


> -> > 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.

Could be, I don't know anything about programming at all.:) Would have been 
nice though to have somone fix such a problem?

Torbjorn

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