-=> Quoting Mike Powell to Richard Town <=-

 RT>Win95, Win98, Win98SE, and WinME _will_ allow hardware to be directly
 RT>manipulated by applications.  It's the WinNT-series of OSs -- WinNT4,
 RT>WinXP, Win2k series -- that won't
 MP> So, WinXP will *not* work with a DOS comm/BBS program?  Interesting.

Dual booted WinNT4 Server and Win95B at one stage and back then there were
mentions of those who were running FD or some other mailer in NT with
some weird fossil that trapped the interrupt calls.  However, whenever I
did it, I could get FD to load and even initialise, but when an incoming
call came in it just froze.  Tried it recently in Win2k Server and nada
either.  Use FD 2.25, etc. and up?

 MP> Thanks for the pointers on the WIN.INI file.  If it comes to it, I
 MP> will try those and see if they help!

Just don't load the commport in Device Manager if an internal modem.
If it's autodetected then disable it in BIOS and disable whatever
toggle there is that provides Windows having BIOS switching control too

Richard

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