On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, John Kelly wrote to Mark Lewis:


-> no, i use SIO and Vmodem with both real serial ports and virtual
-> ports... with both DOS and native OS/2 programs...

 JK> Must work on ECS. But on Warp4, Vmodem gave me some dll error
 JK> message and failed to run.  I have a Warp4 test partion, maybe I
 JK> can try again when I get curious about it.

which SIO? was it using a cracked registration? there are protections built
in to try to thwart cracks...

-> true... in many cases, folks have been spolied by the install and go
-> stuff... few really understand how it all works these days :/

 JK> The 32-bit, and now, 64-bit programming models are easier to work
 JK> with, no doubt.  But if you never experience the 16-bit DOS pain,
 JK> you're not a real programmer. :-)

i still code for 16bit stuffs... however, converting things to FPC and
going native removes a huge amount of those old restrictions ;) O:)

)\/(ark