I've been able to help my net members run BINK 2.60 under WIN-98/ME for a
number of years now running COM-IP and WINFOSSIL with no problems.

Recently a WIN-XP box was left in a basket on my porchstep (In humor here!)
with the goal to establish BINK/MAX/SQUISH on it as well.  OK, I've finaly
got it completely updated for critical error fixes and so on.

I've also gotten the COM/IP version 2.4.1 which I have licensed installed
on this WIN-XP box.  I've also gotten my licensed version of ZOC for
Windows installed on it and running.  Connected to my I/P via dial-up I
have no trouble connecting via TELNET to I/P instances of BINK at all.

But I can't get BINK to either see COM/IP's fossil, nor WINFOSSIL at
all,either in 'connected' fashion to my I/P with the dialer, nor in any
direct COMM port mode for the intended POTS version of BINK that works fine
with all this in WIN-ME and so on.

Yes, I know about the issue of COM/IP's internal fossil that doesn't work
under WIN-95/8/ME.  That's why I've always installed WINFOSSIL to work
around that.  Typically, the COM/IP settings that enable this are to enable
the service on COM4, for example, then to enable WINFOSSIL as task 0003 for
COM4 also.  Away we go.

But the WINFOSSIL version which will install on WIN-95/8/ME just fine, that
initializes on boot-up, obviously is using the \windows\system directory.
That won't work, as far as I can determine in WIN-XP.  WIN-XP wants such
things associated with \windows\system32.  OK, for that task, there is a
different version of WINFOSSIL which is allegedly for WIN-NT,  It does
'install' into the WIN-XP enviornment.

It also is to be run via either an AUTOEXEC.NT shim, or via a modification
in the CONFIG.NT file - which globally will cast it into operation when a
.CMD file session is started.  Maybe so.  But no combination of task or
COMM port assignment I can enable will let BT32 see whatever it has
fossilized as a comport.

Nor .. will BT32, even see an enabled COM/IP fossil that allegedly is
supposed to work fine with WIN-NT.

Does anyone have any help for me to get BT32 going under XP this way?

Thanks!


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike {at} 1:117/3001

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