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to: WILL HONEA
from: PETER KNAPPER
date: 1997-12-30 20:32:00
subject: Sharing comm ports

Hi Will,
 WH> I'm trying to share a com port across a Warp 4 Peer setup such that a
 WH> WinOS2 app can access a modem via the network (I HATE stringing phone
 WH> wires!).  The sharing works fine with OS/2 apps - they use the modem
 WH> slick as can be - but I have yet to be able to get a DOS/WIN app to be
 WH> able to use the port.  Am I missing something obvious or is this a lost
 WH> cause?
Possibly......;-) The only catch I am aware of is that Windows and DOS 
sessions generally only recognise serial ports identified as COM1 - COM4, 
nothing else. Generally, OS/2 apps can access a COM port of almost any name 
you like (share a COM port as CHARLIE and connect to it using an OS/2 comms 
app, it works fine.....;-)). 
I can report that I have connected and used an OS/2 COM port with a modem on 
it (actually COM2, shared as COM4) from a OS/2 Windows session (MS Mail 
Remote) using NETBIOS over TCP/IP on an international connection. It was 
pretty slow, but it sure did work. Left a few MS people with dropped jaws and 
blinking hard......;-)
Regards........pk.
--- Maximus/2 3.01
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* Origin: Another Good Point About OS/2 (3:772/1.10)

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