CA> If I have misunderstood, what you mean, and the thing you really
CA> need, is to know how to write to the serial port, then say so.
No, there are plenty of books that give serial I/O...I don't know if they 
include fossil driver support though.
CA> When you're talking about a chat program I, take it, that you're want to 
CA> run only one instance of each program on each machine, but on mutiple 
CA> machines connected to each other in a LAN -  Unless, of cource, you want 
CA> to chat with somebody using the same machine, and then sharing the 
CA> keyboard :-).
What I am talking about is a BBS chat program like so many already out.  I 
know that it can be done in dos via file sharing, but I don't know how to do 
that, or if there is a better way.  I would like to stay in DOS if at all 
possible...as far as I know, most versions of Windows, OS/2, and even some 
unix have dos emulators.  Plus going to a multi-tasking system would mean I 
would need a library or something like it for the platform.
Thanks alot for the help,
Steve Westcot
...All I ever think of is hex
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