-> JK> making PCBoard talk telnet is the missing link.

-> on OS/2, that would be the vmodem driver with the SIO replacement
-> comms package from Ray Gwinn of X00 fame...

In the sio2k docs, Ray says Warp server ebiz fails when using serial
ports and IRQ 3.  I also read that the server and client code base was
merged as of fixpak 13.

So I installed Warp 4, fixpak 9, and sio2k.  I use a 2 port serial PCI
card on IRQ 3. I can start a file transfer but it stalls and dies. So
much for sio2k.

Then I read that MCP2 has new serial drivers from IBM that support PCI
serial cards with IRQ sharing. So I tried MCP 2.  Also stalls and dies.
Must be true about the problem with IRQ 3.  And the MCP2 peer networking
fails when you disconnect a share and try to reconnect it. At least that
worked right on WARP 4.

There are some post MCP2 fixpaks, but google turns up no download sites
for them.  Apparently the only way to get them is from the ECS website,
and for that you must be a paying customer.

I hadn't looked at OS/2 since the early 1990s, and I was hoping it had
improved with age. But it's as frustrating now as it was then.

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