Subj : Bink under WIN-XP
To   : All
From : Mike Luther
Date : Sat May 01 2004 03:45 pm

I've been able to help my net members run BINK 2.60 under WIN-98/ME for a 
number of years now running COM-IP and WINFOSSIL with no problems.

Recently a WIN-XP box was left in a basket on my porchstep (In humor here!) 
with the goal to establish BINK/MAX/SQUISH on it as well.  OK, I've finaly got 
it completely updated for critical error fixes and so on.

I've also gotten the COM/IP version 2.4.1 which I have licensed installed on 
this WIN-XP box.  I've also gotten my licensed version of ZOC for Windows 
installed on it and running.  Connected to my I/P via dial-up I have no trouble 
connecting via TELNET to I/P instances of BINK at all.

But I can't get BINK to either see COM/IP's fossil, nor WINFOSSIL at all,either 
in 'connected' fashion to my I/P with the dialer, nor in any direct COMM port 
mode for the intended POTS version of BINK that works fine with all this in 
WIN-ME and so on.

Yes, I know about the issue of COM/IP's internal fossil that doesn't work under 
WIN-95/8/ME.  That's why I've always installed WINFOSSIL to work around that.  
Typically, the COM/IP settings that enable this are to enable the service on 
COM4, for example, then to enable WINFOSSIL as task 0003 for COM4 also.  Away 
we go.

But the WINFOSSIL version which will install on WIN-95/8/ME just fine, that 
initializes on boot-up, obviously is using the \windows\system directory. That 
won't work, as far as I can determine in WIN-XP.  WIN-XP wants such things 
associated with \windows\system32.  OK, for that task, there is a different 
version of WINFOSSIL which is allegedly for WIN-NT,  It does 'install' into the 
WIN-XP enviornment.

It also is to be run via either an AUTOEXEC.NT shim, or via a modification in 
the CONFIG.NT file - which globally will cast it into operation when a .CMD 
file session is started.  Maybe so.  But no combination of task or COMM port 
assignment I can enable will let BT32 see whatever it has fossilized as a 
comport.

Nor .. will BT32, even see an enabled COM/IP fossil that allegedly is supposed 
to work fine with WIN-NT.

Does anyone have any help for me to get BT32 going under XP this way?

Thanks!


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Mike @ 1:117/3001

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