Subj : Unable to send
To   : Robert Wolfe
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat May 26 2018 10:05 am


 On 2018 May 26 07:54:58, you wrote to me:

 ml>> on our OS/2 installation(s) we have run 2gbfix which intercepts the
 ml>> av free space call and forces it to 2Gig IF the free space call
 ml>> returns m 2Gig... we need this for quite a few old DOS programs... it
 ml>> didn't hel allfix but we found another way to deal with that...

 RW> Yeah, I found that running 2gbfix kills the VX00.SYS driver that comes
 RW> in SIO2K as well as SIO 1.60d on my virtualized ArcaOS system.

that's strange... i've not seen that on eCS or Warp but i have seen binkd and
allfix tie each other up... that was with the EMX flavor of binkd, IIRC... i
switched to another native compiled flavor of binkd and don't have those
problems any more... the problem was exhibited as a freeze in both programs...
if i exited one, the other one resumed processing...

 RW> Hence, the reason I run the OS/2 native version of FrontDoor and it
 RW> works just fine.

every once in a while, i'll fire up the native FD/2 and let it run for a
while... it still loads my DOS RA in similar fashion as the DOS FD does but the
 script flow is a little different... but i'm not one to do things the normal
way anyway... eg: i process dobbs.bat and dobbs.cmd as a data file ;)

----->8 snip 8<-----
:bbscaller
  set dd=   JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  set dy=%_dow %_day %@substr[%dd%,%@eval[%_month * 3],3] %_year

  set speed=%@word[1,%@line[dobbs%task%.cmd,0]]
  set port=%@word[2,%@line[dobbs%task%.cmd,0]]
  set t2event=%@word[3,%@line[dobbs%task%.cmd,0]]
  set event=-T%t2event%
  set ecc=%@word[5,%@line[dobbs%task%.cmd,0]]
  set baud=%speed%%ecc%
  set CIDinfo=%@word[6,%@line[dobbs%task%.cmd,0]]
  if exist dobbs%task%.cmd copy dobbs%task%.cmd dobbs%task%.
  if exist dobbs%task%.cmd del dobbs%task%.cmd
  cls
  echo.
  echo   Caller online    : %_DATE% %_TIME%
  echo   Connect Settings : COM%port% CONNECT %speed%%ecc%
  echo   Time to EVENT    : %t2event% minutes
  echo   CID Information  : %CIDinfo%
  echo.
  echo. >> %ra%\ra%node%.log
  echo ----------  %dy, %@UPPER[%@FILENAME[%0]] >> %ra%\ra%node%.log
  echo `>` %_TIME%  Caller online    : >> %ra%\ra%node%.log
  echo `>` %_TIME%  Connect Settings : COM%port% CONNECT %speed%%ecc% >>
%ra%\ra%node%.log
  echo `>` %_TIME%  Time to EVENT    : %t2event% minutes >> %ra%\ra%node%.log
  echo `>` %_TIME%  CID Information  : %CIDinfo% >> %ra%\ra%node%.log
  if %t2event% GT 5 goto callok
----->8 snip 8<-----


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