Jeff, at 15:44 on May 15 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> The "-" allows COM port sharing under MDOS, but I don't
run any DOS comms 
BG> apps anyway, so it's unnecessary here.

JG> Thanks.

I'm not sure, but that might only apply to the registered version.

BG> I personally think that the MODE statement is far more important, 
BG> and can be run transaprently at boot-up as a detached process 
BG> from your config.sys by prefixing it with "RUN=" (as in RUN=MODE 
BG> [parameters] etc).

JG> I have the mode statement in my btp.cmd file anyway.

Same here, although it makes more sense to run it from config.sys,
especially if your running any other comms apps as well.

JG> SIO and VSIO are still a couple of days off. BTW, what version 
JG> are you using?

Currently 1.45, but I used several earlier versions here with no apparent
difference between them.  IOW, they all worked just fine.

Regards, Bill
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