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From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
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Subject: Re: Without COM.SYS or VCOM.SYS
Date: 22 Feb 1997 14:12:14 GMT
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In article <1997Feb22.122324.4109@lafn.org>,
Dallas Legan <aw585@lafn.org> wrote:
: I found that I could run MS-DOS Kermit under Specific DOS in OS/2
: by commenting out the
:
: DEVICE=some\path\COM.SYS
: DEVICE=some\other\path\VCOM.SYS
: What is the reason behind this?
: There must be some disadvantages or restrictions on this,
: but what?
You may only run applications in a "Boot from DOS" environment.
: Can anyone out there confirm that these *.SYS files are absolutely needed
: for running C-Kermit and Kermit-95 under OS/2?
VCOM.SYS is for running DOS/WinOS2 applications.
COM.SYS is the real OS/2 communications device driver.
: If they are, this would seem to imply that MS-DOS Kermit is
: more independent of the operating system enviroment it is
: running in, in some sense, where the other versions are
: better suited to multitasking environments I would think.
Of course, MSK is designed to be run on the bare hardware since DOS
does not provide any support for multitasking or serial
communicaitons.
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025 * (212) 854-1344
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html * kermit-support@columbia.edu