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to: mark lewis
from: Sean Dennis
date: 2006-02-07 15:07:42
subject: Re: Quick Question

Mark,

*** Quoting mark lewis from a message to Sean Dennis ***

ml> actually, the '-' tells SIO so allow the port to be shared by more 
ml> than one program at a time... it can be a gotcha, too... like the 
ml> time that i forgot and clicked on the wrong telix icon and loaded the 
ml> one configured the same as the bbs and both programs were trying to 
ml> use the same comport at the same time... not a very pretty picture ;)

Oh, I have had that happen more than once.  I've had two front-end mailers
¨monitoring the modem at once.  When the modem rang, all chaos broke loose.


Later,
Sean

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