->  RW> however, I got the dreaded black screen of death upon reactivating  
->  RW> VMOUSE.SYS and rebooting. 
 
-> hunh? reactivating? 
  
IE un-REM-ing the line :)  
  
->  RW> and install SIO2k, which seems to be working much better than I  
->  RW> had hoped :)  
 
-> certainly sounds like it ;)  
  
Yeah, was playing around with Synchronet 2.30c for OS/2.  For some 
reason SBBSECHO there generates corrupt outbound packets that Wildcat! 
and PX/Wins cannot process.  I will have to work on that some more.  In 
the meantime, I am still using BBBS/2 as my point system. 
 
... "I'm sick! I ought to be home in bed with a nurse." 
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