Perhaps one reason for the decline in BBSing is the difficulty in finding
decent comms programs for Windows or OS/2.

The computer I usually use to call BBSs died recently - it was a 386SX-16
running MS DOS 6.22

I installed an OLMR on the machine where I run my BBS, which runs OS/2 Warp
4, and tried to call using Halite, which comes with OS/2, and also Winramp, a
Windows 3.1 program, which I ran in WinOS/2.

Both worked a couple of times, and then bombed.

Winramp reported General Protection Fault errors.

Eventually the number of failed calls was getting too expensive, since they
were failing 5 out of 6 times, and getting one call for the price of 6 was
uneconomical, so I installed Telix 3.22 for DOS and ran it under a DOS
Window.


My question is: are there ANY decent and reliable comms programs for OS/2 or
Windows out there that one can recommend to users and potential users?

It seems that most people have some form of Windows these days, and in the
absence of a decent comms program it is simply too much hassle to call a BBS.

If there is a place like a Web site where one can download a comms program, I
would like to put a link to it from my BBS Web page, which I use to encourage
people to use BBSs -

http://www.geocities.com/hayesstw/bbsweb.htm

Keep well,

Steve Hayes

E-mail: methodius@bigfoot.com
        shayes@dunelm.org.uk
   Web: http://www.geocities.com/hayesstw/

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