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I am requesting help with 2 unrelated questions; while I do read this
group, email would be preferable to avoid cluttering with answers
to these questions.  If there should be any general interest, I will
summarize and post.

1) I need to develop a custom communications program to exchange
   files with a mainframe that insists on using a custom file
   transfer protocol.  I would like to accumulate some
   recommendations and experiences with commercial / shareware
   communication libraries.
   My development environment is DOS and MSC 5.1.

2) A friend of mine is having trouble with his IBM PS/2 Model 50Z.
   It will not boot off of the hard disk, but I did get it to boot
   off of A: with DOS 4.x.  Poking around with Norton Disk Doctor
   indicated that it appears to think that its configuration
   includes:

	Drives: A = 720K, B = 360K, no other drives

   While the actual configuration includes:

	Drives: A = 1.44M, B = 1.44M, hard disk (32 Meg, I think)

   This being my first experience with PS/2 (I'm still on a
   6MHz AT :-(, I am only able to hypothesize that I need to run
   a SETUP procedure on this machine.  Can someone confirm this
   hypothesis, and if true, tell me how I run it (ie- is the setup
   procedure in ROM (and what is the "magic" sequence to invoke it),
   or do I need a separate disk?

   PS- If I understand correctly, the B: disk was recently installed
       into this machine by a third person, and the battery may have
       been replaced as well.  Why, I don't know, the person I'm
       helping knows less about the PS/2's than I do.

Thanks in advance-
David Wright
wright@cs.uiuc.edu
wright@cs.uiuc.edu@uiucvmd.bitnet
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