*** Quoting Bob Jones from a message to Lance Lyon ***

BJ> Older versions of 32 bit windows were closing the com port if you 
BJ> opened a DOS shell.  By running a .bat file as the external command, 

I think it's because 2000/XP don't correctly pass the environment to 16-bit
¨shells.  Lance may need to specify stuff in his batch file when the door's
¨called.

Again, I'm guessing: I run OS/2 also. 

Later,
Sean

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