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- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 and BBS software
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:18:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.091834.23432@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <1993Jan4.165729.11541@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <wiuwwB3w165w@tcscs.UUCP> <1993Jan6.213753.9390@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <1993Jan6.213753.9390@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- > >>
- > >> >OS/2 v2.x is an excellent platform for what Kevin is trying to do. There is
- > >> >OS/2 version of Maximus that does the job very well.
- ....
- > >> Note that this does, however, have the problem of not allowing the use
- > >> of most 'doors' (which are written to run on DOS) or of a lot of the
- > >> Opus-compatible utilities that Maximus on DOS should be able to run.
- ....
- > >I'm sure there are ways to do this. As for the doors they should be able to
- > >be run by shelling out a command.com /c doorprogram and OS/2 will just load
- > >a temporary DOS session for that program under the OS/2 session. I've done
- ....
- > I believe that the problem is that there is no way to give the serial
- > port as input to the shelled DOS session -- because the OS/2
- > application window running the BBS has it. Multitasking OS's won't
- > let you hand hardware assets around like that. I've been told that
- > there is a way around this using OS2YOU, but I've never used that so
- > couldn't state this absolutely.
-
- If the OS/2 BBS software was multi-threaded, a thread may be able to spin off
- (spawn?) another which could be the Door program.....and received the serial
- port input. Multi-threaded BBS software could monitor any number of serial
- ports and kick off quite a few doors with out any great problems. I have read
- the OS/2 redbooks on this general subject and it seems that - conceptually -
- this is consistent with what i read.
-
- OS/2 apps have the potential to blow the DOS equivalents away. We just have to
- write the software.
-
- A group here in Wellington is being organised to write just such a BBS....:-)
-
- Steve
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