ZF>> The problem is that Win95 is COM-port stupid.
GG> Not really.  Communications performance in Win95/98 is a quantum leap 
rom
GG> trying to do a BBS under Win3/WFWG.  However, Win95/98 doesn't want to 
et
GG> you pass a hot port from a 16bit program to a 32 bit one, and vice-versa.
And it should be noted that Windows NT will not allow this either.
GG> If you use all 16bit, or all 32bit programs, you don't have a problem.
GG> Since I don't see BBS-related authors falling all over themselves to 
rite
GG> 32bit BBS-related software (mailers, doors, BBS software, etc), therein 
GG> lies
GG> a problem.  (Though Scott did give us a 32bit Max, and I think it was one 
GG> of
GG> the first console-mode BBSes to be 32bit.)
Thank goodness Scott took an interest in Windows NT. Otherwise I'd be running 
something stupid like PowerBBS 
Dale
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