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- From: rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Problems switching to/from Full screen DOS VDM
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.190425.10115@apgea.army.mil>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 19:04:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.104040.14883@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> mgjones@apsvax.aps.muohio.edu (Mike Jones) writes:
- >Hello. I've been having a problem that I have not been able to figure
- >out how to fix, so before I bend IBM's ear, I figured I would check here
- >to see if anyone else has had this problem and found a way around it.
- >
- >Anways, I am running OS/2 2.0 GA with the CSD patches. The problem
- >I am having is with the COMM port. I have 2 comports, my mouse on COM1,
- >and a 14,400 Supra modem on COM2. I run a DOS BBS in a VDM (the standard
- >OS/2 DOS, not a real copy of DOS). The BBS runs in a window. The problem
- >I am having is that whenever I open up a fullscreen DOS session, a signal
- >is sent to my modem (happens when I switch _out_ of a full screen session
- >also). This has the result of hanging up on anyone who would happen to
- >be online at the time. Also, if no one is online, it screws up the modem
- >so that no one can call in until I reset the BBS. Therefore, I am stuck
- >having to use the VDM in a window all the time, and having to temporaly
- >take down the BBS if I have to do anything full screen. I have used the
- >original COMM drivers, switch to a newer set I got from hobbes ftp site,
- >and now am running the SIO v0.20 comm drivers, and ALL had the same result.
- >I have also even tried disabling access to COM2 in a DOS VDM that I wanted
- >to make full screen (through DOS Settings...), but it still sends something.
- >
- >Has anyone experienced this problem, and is there a way to fix it? Should
- >I try loading up a real copy of DOS in a VDM? Could someone with the OS/2
- >2.1 Beta tell me if it has the same problem? (I am considering getting it).
- >
- >BTW, OS/2 full screen command line does not have this problem.
- >
- >Thanks, and *PLEASE* EMAIL ME, I cannot keep up with the traffic in this
- >group very well.
- >
- >---
- >Mike "Felix" Jones
- >mgjones@apsvax.aps.muohio.edu
- >
- > "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies,
- > and benchmarks." - adapted from Benjamin Disraeli
-
-
- Wellm I'm about to runa BBS on OS/2. (I've been running one in dos for 4 years,
- I'm just going to transfer my Telegard package two the os/2 machine)
- Anyways, I have ran Qmodem, downloading, uploading and just hanging on line
- while I played games such as willy beamish and Incredtable machine in full,
- screen for some time now with no problem. I just make sure that the game
- has a lower sensitivity and has no hold on comm ports. I hope it'll work
- just as good for my bbs at 9600 but your saying it might not ??
- Rob Merritt
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