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HERBERT GRAF wrote in a message to BRUCE LEGRANDE:

 HG>         Sure, this should work out fine. Get the cards, and if
 HG> possible win95 or win3.11 on one of the machines, that isn't really
 HG> necessary, but I don't know the capabilities of OS/2. Anyways, for
 HG> the dos machines, get the microsoft client package for dos off of
 HG> the web site and install it on the dos based computers. I have

Thanks for the reply Herb.  This sounds promising.
Although I don't feel comfortable using a Win based machine
for a main server.  That job WILL fall to the 486DX4-100 OS/2
machine, but I'm sure that there are applications available for
that OS that will meet (if not surpass) the WinApps.
The only WinOS I plan to have on the LAN would be the machine
that I'd be using for the business related apps, and the Web-
browsing/chatting/ftp (surfing) clients, and I dont' have that
machine built (yet).  So, that could simply be a LAN-Client, as
long as it can communicate with OS/2. (OS/2 is not a variable)
The main 'server' (as it were) will be running the main BBS node
in an OS/2 (v3.x) session 24/7, and making the inet polls on a
seperate analog modem connection (maybe even a full time dialup,
if I can swing that with a local ISP :).
I'm also contemplating setting up a 'Virtual Modem' connection on
the Windows based 'surfin' machine and running a session of Maximus
(for Win3.11) as a small telnettable BBS. This brings me to one of
the main resource-sharing subjects, of creating a 'PIPE' between
this machine - the HAM BBS - the laptop - and the main node running
on the OS/2 machine, so that the users online at each system can chat
across the LAN, and the user databases and nodelists can be shared by
ALL local nodes and BBS sessions, plus it would create a nice
'sysop presence' with access to the users from the laptop.
The 386/33 will be running the HAM Radio BBS node (as mentioned),
so I hope that these 'microsoft client pkgs for DOS' that you named
run in the background, as the BBS mailer needs to be in the foregrnd
all of the time to answer calls, and the OS (MSDOS 6.22) on that
mach is NOT M-Tasking.
What is the URL for that page where I can d/l the DOS client
or even better yet an 'ftp' site URL ?
Any Comments/Ideas ?  Anyone ???
Sincerely,
           Bruce - kb6lwn - ck1@pacbell.net 
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