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- .TOPIC:
- Interfacing VBBS with Digiboards
- VBBS 6.12 Documentation --11-E-1
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- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
- ║ CHAPTER 11 ANNEX E INTERFACING VBBS WITH DIGIBOARDS ║
- ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
-
- Below is a sample DOS setup of a Digiboard running under
- DesqView.
-
- Equipment Used:
-
- 1. DigiBoard Intelligent PC/XE Asynchronous Communication Board
- 2. DigiBoard DOS Driver (Digiware DOS, AIO, OS2, Windows Async
- Driver)
- 3. Running under DOS 6, Desqview, and QEMM 386 v7.01
- 4. 4 External Infotel 9600 v42 bis (set at 19200 baud in vbbs
- only)
- 5. Vbbs 6.10
-
-
- Steps To Install:
-
- 1. Install the DigiBoard drivers to the hard drive
- (I use C:\DIGI), by copying the DOS Driver diskette.
-
- 2. Run XIDOSCFG, to configure the DigiBoard ports.
- You should see a menu that looks something like this:
-
- Board Type Window Memory I/O IRQ # Brd Start Driver
- # Size Window Port # Chnls Chnl# Support
- 1 PC/Xe 64k D0000h 0320 10 4 1 DOS/EBIOS
-
- Configuration Selections: Use Arrow Keys < >
-
- Q)uit C)hannel Parameters O)ptions A)dd Board R)emove Board
-
- 2A. Use the arrow keys to set up the I/O Port, IRQ, and the like
- to match the settings on your board. The settings above show an
- example.
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE: You *MUST* start at Channel 1. If you do not,
- you will not see all of the ports!
-
-
- 2B. Choose (C)hannel Parameters to set the proper speed of the ports,
- You should see a menu that looks like something like this:
-
- BOARD 1 PARAMETERS
- CHANL BAUD MODE RX FLOW TX FLOW NAME
- 1 9600 8,N,1 NONE DSR/CTS COM5
- 2 9600 8,N,1 NONE DSR/CTS COM6
- 3 9600 8,N,1 NONE DSR/CTS COM7
- 4 9600 8,N,1 NONE DSR/CTS COM8
-
- Q)uit S)et All Use Arrow Keys < >
-
- VBBS 6.12 Documentation --11-E-2
-
-
- You can use the arrow keys to move to each column that needs
- to be adjusted, such as the Baud Rate. Once you set the first
- one, you can choose S)et All to adjust the rest of the channels
- to match.
-
- 3. Add the following line to your CONFIG.SYS:
- DEVICE=C:\DIGI\XIDOS5.SYS
-
- 4. You must exclude the RAM Address you choose in the XIDOSCFG
- (called Memory Window) in your memory manager. In QEMM, add:
- X=D000-DFFF to the command line; which excludes D000-DFFF from
- use.
-
- 5. Run VCONFIG and configure the new channels. Instead of choosing
- a COMx port, choose the Digiboard Port x, where x is the number
- of the port.
-
- NOTE: Please erase (zero out - put all zeros in the field) the
- Address and IRQ fields.
-
- 6. TEST, TEST, TEST!
-
- At this point, everything should be configured properly. Included
- are a CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT for reference, with comments after
- each file, referencing the line by number.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- CONFIG.SYS
-
- DEVICE=C:\QEMM\DOSDATA.SYS
- DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS X=D000-DFFF R:1 RAM st:m
- DEVICE=C:\QEMM\DOS-UP.SYS @C:\QEMM\DOS-UP.DAT
- DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:2 C:\DIGI\XIDOS5.SYS
- DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:2 C:\QEMM\QDPMI.SYS SWAPFILE=DPMI.SWP
- SWAPSIZE=1024
- DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
- DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:2 C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
- FILES=30
- BUFFERS = 30
- STACKS=9,256
- SHELL=c:\qemm\loadhi.com /r:2 C:\command.com C:\ /P
-
- VBBS 6.12 Documentation --11-E-3
-
- Comments:
- ---------
- 1. This prepares the system for loading parts of DOS into upper
- memory.
- 2. Load the memory manager, excluding the Memory Window from
- XIDOSCFG
- 3. Continued from line 1
- 4. Load the DigiBoard driver
- 5. Continued from line 1
- 6. Load DOS' SETVER for any old programs
- 7. Load DOS' ANSI driver
- 8. Set FILES
- 9. Set BUFFERS
- 10.Set STACKS (Usually used with Windows)
- 11.Set the SHELL statement.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------
- AUTOEXEC.BAT
-
- C:\QEMM\LOADHI /R:2 C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE
- @ECHO OFF
- PROMPT TIME IS: $t$_DATE IS:$d $p$g
- SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
- SET PATH=C:\QEMM;C:\DOS;C:\UTILITY;C:\VBBS;C:\XTGOLD
- CD\DOS
- c:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 doskey
- C:\QEMM\LOADHI /R:2 SHARE
- cd\
- cls
- dv
-
- Comments:
- ---------
- 1. Load SMARTDRV cache
- 2. Turn off the local Echo
- 3. Set the DOS PROMPT
- 4. Set the TEMP directory
- 5. Set the PATH
- 6. Change to the DOS directory for next few commands
- 7. Load DOSKEY high
- 8. Load SHARE high
- 9. Change to the root
- 10.Clear the screen
- 11.Start Desqview (Auto-Start VBBS)
-
-