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I'd be glad  on any clues for  getting Banyan Vines 5.52  working over
OS/2 Warp. Please reply by email to <lms@lnec.pt>.

Basically,  I've  been charged   to dump  MS-DOS  and  replace it with
OS/2. :-) We will only need OS/2 as a way  to start MS Windows (ie. we
won't develop any native applications for OS/2).  There is no need for
Windows  for Workgroups support. In fact,  due to  its nature, WfWG is
out of the question in our network.

What we want is:

	OS/2 as a replacement for DOS
	Banyan Vines (5.52) as network support, via NDIS (real mode is fine)
	PC/TCP 2.2 running over the Banyan layer
	Oracle SQL*Net over PC/TCP
	Lightspeed over the Banyan layer
	Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (or rather, Win-OS/2 :-) )
	ODBC over SQL*Net
	...and MS Access or MS Visual Basic on top of everything :-)

Possible? Well, almost.  Banyan Vines' BAN  /NC and NDDGBAN work fine.
When it reaches the REDIRALL  program, this one complains about having
the incorrect DOS version to work with  (I guess OS/2 Warp responds to
such requests    with version 3.0).    Setting  REDIRALL's version  to
anything  above  3.2 crashes REDIRALL with   a message like  "No CLOCK
device found" (???).  This is made via the  Settings box.  Using DOS's
SETVER doesn't have any effect.

Other similar programs like REDIR3, REDIR4, REDIRNP3 or REDIRNP4 crash
with the same message.

I guess that if  I can get  REDIRALL to work,  all the rest  will work
fine. Unfortunately, I  have a 3Com Etherlink III,  which I _must_ use
with NDIS (so I don't know if the problem is there or not).

Interestingly,  if I    _don't_ load  the   Protocol  Manager and  the
ELNK3.DOS driver  at all, REDIRALL won't crash.  Of course :-) BAN and
NDDGBAN won't load in that case...

I thank you   for  any clues  on  this.   I'm evaluating OS/2    as an
alternative  to NT 3.51,   and if I  can't  get it working with Banyan
Vines, OS/2 will be out of the picture.  We'll have  to sell our souls
back to Bill Gates again :-)

Please reply by email. I scarcely have time to read the News :-(

	- Luis Sequeira


PS. By the way, using Trumpet Winsock I  can get TCP/IP working nicely
in WfWG...

PPS.  Flames welcome :-)  Specially if you  include the FAQ's location
with them, of course :-)
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