Subj : Bink hanging
To   : Mike Luther
From : Michael Grant
Date : Sat Jul 03 2004 11:29 am

Hello Mike.

03 Jul 04 04:27, you wrote to me:

 ML> One of my Net members left me a box to try to get Bink and Com/IP and all
 ML> working on WIN-XP.  I got him up and running fine on WIN-ME and he's
 ML> still up with that as critical-file patched, so far.

 ML> But try as I might, I cannot get Bink up with Com/IP and XP at all, no
 ML> matter what fossil I try, including WinFossil for NT, NTFOSS or whatever.
 ML> In this case the box has a WinModem.  I've yet to try this with a modem
 ML> with a processor for lack of time to play yet.  I have a feeling that it
 ML> may be related to the WinModem issue.

I would suspect so. Generally, you use Winfossil and Com/IP to support DOS 
based mailers and BBS packages, and DOS based packages won't work with 
Winmodems. I'm pretty sure Winfossil won't recognize a Winmodem either. The 
programs simply won't see the modem at all, and so can't dial out with them. To 
get it to work, you need a hardware modem.

Right now, I am running Bink/DOS 2.60 and Mystic/DOS 1.0.7.3 with Com/IP and 
Winfossil under Win NT, with a USR sportster 56k hardware modem. Win XP did not 
change at all from NT in regard to how the com ports are assigned or how the 
TCP/IP stack works, so what works for NT should work for XP.

 ML> In this XP box I have no trouble connecting it to the sample IP provider,
 ML> nor with the use of ZOC for Windows which I have registered and works for
 ML> him wonderfully with both ME and XP.

The only solution would be to go to a W32 based BBS package, and even then (I'm 
not sure) some may not support Winmodems. If they work though, you don't need a 
fossil to run them. Some W32 BBS packages even come with telnet servers 
(Mystic, Synchronet, EleBBS for example), so you don't even need to run Com/IP 
with them. The problem is that you need fossil support to run DOS based door 
games, and then you're back to square one with the Winmodem problem.


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