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- From: djn31@ttacs.tttu.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs.allsysop,alt.bbs,alt.bbs.doors,alt.bbs.tribbs,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Frontdoor Problems
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 20:33:38 GMT
- Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services
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- In article <4iiepe$hl0@vivaldi.telepac.pt>
- pj.sousa@telepac.pt (Paulo Sousa) wrote:
-
- >
- > Hello ALL:
- >
- > I'm running my board with Frontdoor and I'm having three major
- > headaches with it. If you guys could help me with at least one of the
- > problems, I would be very appreciated. They are (in order):
- >
- > 1st) Almost half of the calls to my board end with a carrier drop,
- > and I suspect that can be something in the init strings, or else it
- > can be something with the LAPM error correction. I've already tried
- > several inits without success. My current Frontdoor init is:
- >
-
- Try matching the error levels on your EXEBBS and General FD batch file. I have had
- problems with that before but if you match the error levels correctly you shouldn't
- experience any problems.
-
- > AT&F&C1&D2&T5W2S95=47S11=50&Q5%C0|
- >
- > My modem is a Zoom VFP 28.8.
- >
- >
- > 2nd) My Frontdoor doesn't run inside my Windows 3.11. I've already
- > tried every imaginable type of config in my Frontdoor PIF file, and
- > nothing. I see Frontdoor trying to send commands to the serial ports,
- > but nothing gets there. I really don't know what should I put in my
- > PIF, etc., to have Frontdoor running on Windows.
- >
-
- There is an extremely easy solution to that problem. Don't run win3.11. I mean from
- all the OS's I have experimented with Win3.11 is the worst to run with a BBS. I reccomend
- You run OS/2 or Desqview.
-
-
- >
- > 3rd) The least of my problems. I would like to know how should I
- > setup my BIOS in order to benefict of the Green PC features of my
- > computer, which features (ports, IRQs, etc) should I enable and which
- > should I disable.
-
-
- --Chaos451
-
-