IJ> I have a task of FD setup on VModem ... and I want people to
 IJ> have the ability to goto ELE BBS/2 ... all are OS2 native
 IJ> software.

 IJ> I have asked FD to make a DOBBS.CMD/BAT

is that the os/2 native version of FD?

 IJ> My EXEBBS.CMD looks like this...
 IJ> {at}echo off
 IJ> set task=1
 IJ> set fd=\fd
 IJ> set fe=\fd\fe
 IJ> set ra=\ele
 IJ> cd\ele
 IJ> elebbs /C%2 /B%1%5 /T%3 /N%4 /H%7

looks fine for DOS stuff loading DOS stuff...

 IJ> Now... I can call the BBS once... the mailer passes the user
 IJ> to the BBS and then the user loggs off and the mailer comes
 IJ> up... when I go to call back the second time I see a "RING"
 IJ> come up in the mailer window but nothing happens...  I have to
 IJ> reboot to make things work...

 IJ> ideas??

not really... i load from DOS and OS/2 FD to DOS RA... to go from OS/2 FD
to DOS RA, i drop back to the CMD and then "call exebbs.cmd"...
exebbs.cmd is one that i wrote that uses hstart to fire up exebbs.bat with
specific hstart config files for each node... exebbs.bat is another that i
wrote that is essentially just the bbs portion of my regular stuff...

so anyway, hstart waits on exebbs.bat to exit before returning and exiting
back to the mailer's cmd file...

IIUC, there's a comport handle involved as opposed to a comport when one is
working with native OS/2 comms like this... you need to determine what FD
is passing so that you can tell ele what to use...

hopefully others who are or have run native OS/2 bbs' with native OS/2 FD
will chime in and help...

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