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In <wiuwwB3w165w@tcscs.UUCP> tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:

>mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:

>> In <1993Jan1.120522.28801@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writ
>> 
>> 
>> >OS/2 v2.x is an excellent platform for what Kevin is trying to do. There is 
>> >OS/2 version of Maximus that does the job very well.
>> > 
>> >You would need at least 6 megs with OS/2 v2.0.......though the upcoming V2.1
>> >runs better in less memory. I have the beta for OS/2 2.1 running pretty well
>> >on a 386DX/25 with 4 meg of RAM on a PC at work. 
>> > 
>> >There are several BBS's here in Wellington running Maximus on OS/2. The nice
>> >part about is the vastly superior multi-tasking of OS/2 over Windows. This
>> >shows especially when dealing with modems and comms programs. DOS comms run 
>> >under OS/2 but native OS/2 programs are definitly superior to anything aroun
>> >for smooth multi-tasking - like Maximus for OS/2. 
>> 
>> Note that this does, however, have the problem of not allowing the use
>> of most 'doors' (which are written to run on DOS) or of a lot of the
>> Opus-compatible utilities that Maximus on DOS should be able to run.
>> 
>I'm sure there are ways to do this.  As for the doors they should be able to
>be run by shelling out a command.com /c doorprogram and OS/2 will just load
>a temporary DOS session for that program under the OS/2 session.  I've done
>some experimenting with this with normal programs and they worked just fine,
>but not in a BBS environment.  Besides, as long as the OS/2 and DOS versions
>use the same file formats, then the DOS sysop utils that do file maintenance
>will still work running in a DOS session (unless the sysop uses longer file
>names than DOS allows).

I believe that the problem is that there is no way to give the serial
port as input to the shelled DOS session -- because the OS/2
application window running the BBS has it.  Multitasking OS's won't
let you hand hardware assets around like that.  I've been told that
there is a way around this using OS2YOU, but I've never used that so
couldn't state this absolutely.

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