27 Mar 16 10:01, you wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 RW> I would prefer something that is native to OS/2 as sharing a com port
 RW> between DOS and OS/2 applications is a pain in the rear and I am not
 RW> sure exactly how to get SIO2K to allow the sharing of a COM port
 RW> between a DOS and and OS/2 app correctly to begin with.

i don't know about SIO2k but regular/original SIO simply used a '-' in the
last field... here's my device driver line for eight ports... on this
system, COM1 is the mouse, COM2 is locaked at 115200 for an analogue
modem... all other ports are telnet ports... only the tasks that need
access to vmodem have that driver loaded in their private properties...
note the use of custom addresses, too... just make sure they don't step on
anything else that may already be there...

DEVICE=X:\SIO\SIO.SYS (COM1,3F8,4,-) (COM2:115200,2F8,3,-)
(COM3,INTERNET:3E8,NONE:4,-) (COM4,INTERNET:2E8,NONE:3,-)
(COM5,INTERNET:1F8,NONE:3,-) (COM6,INTERNET:1E8,NONE:3,-)
(COM7,INTERNET:4F8,NONE:3,-) (COM8,INTERNET:4E8,NONE:3,-)
DEVICE=X:\SIO\VSIO.SYS

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