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Please do not crosspost so widely in the future.  These groups are
busy enough without rampant crossposting.

In article <92230.152601U55870@uicvm.uic.edu> David James Alexander Hanley <U55870@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>  I am writing a bbs program that will run under ms-dos and will require a
>special term program.  To do this properly, it would seem easiest to hook
>up two machines through the srial prot, and develop the bbs program on one,
>the the term on the other.  However, I do not have two machines at my disposal,
>so I have a problem.  I would like to use os2( I'm using it now anyways ) and
>run the term program in one window, and the bbs program in another.  I can
>develop the software this way, and worry about adding the serial/phone routines
>when the bbs software is completely written/debugged.  Does anyone know of a
>practical way to communicate between DOS windows in os2?  I need to send
>information bolth ways, obviously, just like a bbs and term.  Thank you
>for any help.

Sure.  Just make sure you have two available COM ports on your system.
Then get a null modem cable to connect the ports together.  Run the
terminal program in one window using one COM port and run the BBS in
another.

Once you've discovered how easy this is, maybe you will write the BBS
and/or terminal program for OS/2.  :-)

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