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to: MARK LEWIS
from: GENO MARINE
date: 1998-05-11 16:43:00
subject: Do you really?

In a message to Geno Marine  Mark Lewis wrote:
ML>  GM> Under OS/2, I have tried using Ray Gwinn's Vmodem, but did not
 GM> achieve desired results.  Zoc found the com port, but Twhelp
 GM> locked the system trying to access the same com port.
ML> in your specs on the SIO command line in your CONFIG.SYS, you need to 
have 
a
ML> '-' as the last entry... the '-' tells SIO to not protect the port from 
acc
ess
ML> by more than one program.
ML> ie: this from my own config (beautified for visual appearance)...
ML> DEVICE=D:\SIO\SIO.SYS (COM1,3F8,4,-)
ML>                       (COM2:115200,2F8,3,-)
ML> (COM3:115200,3E8,7:4,-)
ML>                       (COM4,INTERNET:2E8,NONE:3,-)
ML>                       (COM5,INTERNET:1F8,NONE:3,-)
ML>                       (COM6,INTERNET:1E8,NONE:3,-)
ML>                       (COM7,INTERNET:4F8,NONE:3,-)
ML>                       (COM8,INTERNET:4E8,NONE:3,-)
ML> if you are using a non-standard port address and/or IRQ for that vmodem 
por
t,
ML> your helper needs to also know what they are...
I had a "-" on all but the vmodem port, set up like  your com4
with the exception of using irq 9.  I will try this again in a
few minutes, and I hope it works.
Have you had any success in running twhelp via telnet?
Thanks for the guidance.
L8r,
~~~~~Geno~~~~~
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